More photos taken on January 14, 2001, the second auspicious bathing day.

Just when I was beginning to wonder if there were any brothers from Africa at this event, out popped a number of brothers from Kenya, the land of my birth. All are students in India. Most are studying here in Allahabad, the rest have joined them to be here during this time. Edgar, second from right who is doing defense studies here says he does not know much about the mythology of the Mela, but he finds it fascinating and he is enjoying it.

Sunset over the Yamuna. 6pm. The man on the left with a stick in his hand was shooing away as well as hitting boatman who were boarding or dropping passengers at this Kila ghat site. There are a lot of pilgrims here and enough boats as well, but not enough docking space at the designated boarding site on the Saraswat ghat at the edge of the Fort. Old people find it difficult to board boats from the steep slopes at the Fort site. I could see no reason why pilgrims could not use this area today. When I asked him why he was doing it he said ‘Saraswat is the place they must go’. He wore a baseball cap and a loud red tee shirt advertising Indian Oil’s Servo. If it had not been for the walkie-talkie he was holding, I would have assumed he needed help.