
Maun Mela fishing festival and traffic near twin bridges in Uttarakhand
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Maun Mela, a traditional community fishing festival held along the Aglar River in the Tehri Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India.
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Ganpati idols being worshipped in a Badlapur home in Maharashtra, India. The idols are then taken to a pond or river for immersion at the end of the festive period. This is a family festival and religious ritual and everyone takes part. Despite the Covid pandemic, people still partake of the ritual, with just a few folks wearing masks. The introduction of the idols with chemical paints, lead, chromium and other metals in them, is fast polluting lakes around the country. To prevent such pollution in natural water bodies, artificial and temporary ponds have been created for the purpose. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest HD and 4K collection from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadc
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