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Hindu devotees offer prayers while taking a dip in the River Ganges on the first day of the Kumbh Mela, or the pitcher festival, in Haridwar, India, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Hundreds of thousands of devotees took a dip in the icy waters of the Ganges river in one of northern India’s holiest cities Thursday, marking the start of a monthslong Hindu festival expected to attract more than 10 million people.