Imagine everyone in Manhattan walking to the tip of Wall Street at midnight to take a dip in the Hudson River.

That's how Robert Moses, a 63-year-old photographer living in Dublin, New Hampshire, described his experience at the 1989 Maha Kumbh Mela, the Hindu festival that attracts tens of millions of pilgrims to northern India every 12 years.

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