Ritual Bathing in Nashik

This was my first big entry into the world of Hinduism. I had come after almost an entire week visit in Bombay. With this conversion baptism ceremony or whatever it might be called, I turned the page from the known to the new, hyper-unknown ... Suddenly I saw a crowd, throwing things in the air and people bathing, that was what my eyes saw .... Hindu. Over the months I was hitting several of these ceremonies in other parts of the country, but this by its tremendous coloring, was the best I saw. And this city off the beaten path was the best in my nearly four months in India ...