People when making a wish also make a promise that if their wish is fulfilled, they will be back with a flag on a pole and wet it in the water as an acknowledgement of their gratitude. The flag is now wet – and off home they go, another promise fulfilled.

Everywhere you look, someone is doing something. If it’s not playing, it’s praying.

Make your own Shiva linga from the bed of Ganga Mata – and then bow down and pray.

Someone left a Ganesh image in the sand and constructed a Shiva linga garlanded with flowers next to Him. A man helps his frail mother along while kids play in the distance.

. ….and all of a sudden, amid all the games and fun and prayer, I see a message of fire in a leaf-bowl floating down the Ganges.