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, August 29, 2014

Devotees shout religious slogans as they pull a trolley with the statue of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, to a place of worship on the first day of the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai August 29. During the festival, the idols will be taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing, and will be immersed in a river or the sea in accordance with the Hindu faith. - Reuters/Danish Siddiqui




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