Such unique phenomena drew a team from Harvard University to Allahabad this year to study the event. Understandably for a gathering of this size, the event is wrought with real-time problems. More than 12,000 police and paramilitary provide security in 14 zones cordoned off across 4,700 acres of land and criss-crossed with more than 70 miles of roads – all designed to cater to some 40 million Hindu pilgrims who will pass through the camp, gather on the banks of the rivers, bathe for about three minutes (there are guards timing them), and head home washed of sin. On the flood plains where the Ganga and Yamuna rivers meet with the Saraswati (a mythical, invisible river), a massive, functional city is built in a matter of weeks. ![]() Every twelfth year, the Maha Kumb Mela, the largest and by some accounts holiest of the Melas, is held in Allahabad, a city of 1.2 million in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The Kumbh Mela is held every third year at sacred locations near rivers in India. The Hindu religious gathering is also a logistical nightmare, even when it does not turn deadly as it did on Sunday, when dozens were killed in a stampede at the Allahabad train station. ![]() ![]() The Maha Kumbh Mela is known as the biggest gathering of human beings in the world.
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