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alainloss: Pilgrims walking to Kaila Devi temple
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alainloss: Kaila Devi festival near Karauli (Rajasthan)
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alainloss: Kaila Devi festival (Rajasthan)
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alainloss: Procession of pilgrims on their way to Kaila Devi festival
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alainloss: Pilgrims on their way to Kaila Devi festival
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alainloss: Pilgrims flocking to Kaila Devi shrine
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alainloss: Almost everyone walks to Kaila Devi temple
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alainloss: Pilgrims on their way to Kaila Devi shrine
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alainloss: Pilgrims getting to Kaila Devi temple
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alainloss: Kaila Devi festival requires intense walking but this sock can endure no more
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alainloss: Pilgrim feet carry the scars of long walking
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alainloss: Kaila Devi pilgrims are fed freely in tented canteens
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alainloss: Mass cooking at Kaila Devi festival
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alainloss: After a long walk pilgrims get free food
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alainloss: Rich donors fund the canteens
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alainloss: Mass cooking at Kaila Devi festival
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alainloss: Cleaning the dishes is a mammoth task
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alainloss: Ritual of Kanak-Dandoti : prostrating and crawling to the temple
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alainloss: Ardent devotees prostrate and crawl all the way to the shrine
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alainloss: Ritual of Kanak-Dandoti : prostrating and crawling up to the shrine
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alainloss: Crawling all the way up to the temple
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alainloss: Lonely boy on a charpoy
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alainloss: Protective cow and her calf
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alainloss: Vendor selling offering to the goddess
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alainloss: Villager at her doorstep
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alainloss: Kaila Devi festival
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alainloss: Kaila Devi festival
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alainloss: Kaila Devi festival
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alainloss: Relaxed policeman at Kaila Devi festival
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alainloss: Kum Kum powder used for religious markings