Flip-flops on the floor after a crowd stampede - Fotografia de stock

Young Indian man looks at the floor, full of flip-flops, shoes and clothing, on a tent-city major street. Despite the awesome police work, on the busiest hours, crowds of near 80 million people can get compact, so people step on each others shoes, lose them and are unable to bend and wear them back. Photo taken during the afternoon of a Royal Bath day in Kumbh Mela 2019, Prayagraj (Allahabad), India. Kumbh Mela or Kumbha Mela is a major pilgrimage and festival in Hinduism, and probably the greatest religious festival in the World. It is celebrated in a cycle of approximately 12 years at four river-bank pilgrimage sites: the Allahabad (Ganges-Yamuna Sarasvati rivers confluence), Haridwar (Ganges), Nashik (Godavari), and Ujjain (Shipra). The festival is marked by a ritual dip in the waters, but it is also a celebration of community commerce with numerous fairs, education, religious discourses by saints, mass feedings of monks or the poor, and entertainment spectacles. Pilgrims believe that bathing in these rivers is a means to cleanse them of their sins and favour a better next incarnation.