India: Gangasagar Transit Camp Kolkata

Barun Kumar Das

About 150km from Kolkata, in South 24 Parganas district, the island of Sagar is considered auspicious by the Hindus, who gather at this time of the year to take a holy dip at the junction of the the river Ganga and the Bay of Bengal with a believe that all their sins will be washed out. Many devotees and Sadhus from the different parts of the India make a pit stop here and then avail the government buses to go to Ganga Sagar mela and come back too. The days they wait here at Babughat area on their way and back to Sagar Island becomes Gangasagar Transit Camp.