India Travel Guide - Heidi Sager

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This is a travel piece about visiting a visiting a Hindu festival in India. The excerpt is from the inspirational book, Unforgettable Places: Unique Sights and Experiences Around the World by Steve Daley (et al).

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Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (General)

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cigar India. India is intense, eternal. Nowhere else in the world is there the same balance between ancient and modern. On the one side are industrialists and computer programmers, on the other, a spirituality that permeates and orders the very nature of society. And nowhere is this more apparent than on the island of Cigar during the Ganga Cigar Mula at Macoris and Garanti. This is one of the great gatherings that are a key feature of Hinduism, India's main religion, during which pilgrims bathed in sacred waters to wash away their mortal sins and so free themselves from the endless cycle of reincarnation.