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Illusionists Cyril Takayama performs in Mumbai, India on June 15, 2012. Takayama is in India to promote his television show.
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Sana, a five-year-old girl, plays on a cloth sling hanging from a signalling pole as smoke from a garbage dump rises next to a railway track in Mumbai, India, on May 2, 2012.
Competitors flex their muscles for Mr. Mumbai title
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A participant has tanning lotion applied on his body during the screening session for "Mr. Mumbai" body building competition in Mumbai on April 10.
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Competitors stretch backstage during the screening session for the "Mr. Mumbai" body building competition on April 10 in Mumbai
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A competitor in the Mr. Mumbai body building contest.
Competitors stretch, pose and even get their bodies painted backstage during the screening session for the “ Mr. Mumbai” body building competition in Mumbai, capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
More than 30 bodybuilders divided into eight groups based on their weight will participate in the oldest and most prestigious body building competition in Mumbai on April 11. Eight finalists, one from each group will then compete for the title of “Mumbai Shree” or “Mr. Mumbai.”
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A competitor poses backstage before the competition on April 10 in Mumbai.
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A competitor waits backstage on April 10. Eight finalists will be chosen from the 30 participants to compete for the title of "Mr. Mumbai."
Toxic dyes in Holi celebrations kill 1, hospitalize hundreds
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Vaishnavi Borde, a nine year-old Indian child, who is undergoing treatment after suffering from allergic reactions from colored powder thrown during the Holi Festival, reacts during a blood test at a hospital in Mumbai on March 9. A teenage boy has died and hundreds of others have been hospitalized in Mumbai due to suspected contaminated paint used in the Indian "festival of colour" Holi, a report said.
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Relatives of 13-year old Viky Walmiki, who died from poisoning from colored powder and water used during Holi celebrations, gather outside his house in Mumbai, India, on March 9.
What traditionally are lighthearted Hindu celebrations of the arrival of spring, became deadly when hundreds of children came into contact with toxic colors used in the festivities. Viky Walmiki, 13-years-old, died after he was taken to the hospital with poisoning symptoms while celebrating in Mumbai. According to the Times of India, more than 200 people were admitted to hospitals "after they complained of giddiness, burning sensation on skin, nausea and vomiting." It is possible that leather tanners from a local dump got mixed up with the colors the children used to splash each other. Mumbai's Dharavi neighborhood is home to a leather tanning industry.
The annual festival always provides colorful scenes of people splashing each other with colored powders and dyes.
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Police take notes as they speak to children suffering from poisoning from colored powder and water used during Holi celebrations, in Mumbai, India, on March 8.
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5-year-old Ritika Borde, a victim of poisoning from colored powder and water used during Holi celebrations, stands in a queue to be treated at a government hospital in Mumbai, India, on March 9.
Hindu idols immersed in Arabian Sea as Mumbaikars mark Ganesh Chaturthi festival
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Hindu devotees struggle against a wave as they carry an idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha for immersion on the fifth day of the ten-day long festival Ganesh Chaturthi, in Mumbai, India, on September 5.
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Women with their faces covered in colored powder gather on the sea shore to watch as people immerse statues of the Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, in the Arabian Sea in Mumbai on September 5.
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People carry an idol of Ganesha into the Arabian Sea in Mumbai on September 5.
AFP and Reuters report:
The ten day Ganesh Chaturthi festival sees millions of Hindus gathering to see the elephant-god idols immersed in a river or the sea, symbolizing a ritual seeing-off of his journey towards his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind.
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A dabbawala (box-carrier) arranges tiffin lunch boxes on the roadside in Mumbai, India, on August 18. The dabbawalas have announced a one-day strike in support of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement.
Lunch is cancelled as Mumbai's army of dabbawalas go on strike to support protest movement
For the first time in their 120-year history, Mumbai's legendary tiffin delivery men are to strike, EPA reports.
The dabbawalas, whose elaborate system delivers hundreds of thousands of lunches from workers' homes to their offices each day - reportedly making just one mistake in every six million deliveries - have been studied by Harvard academics and a slew of management consultants, according to The Economist.
An official from the Mumbai Tiffin Box Supplier Association told The Wall Street Journal that deliveries will be halted on Friday in support of Anna Hazare's fight against corruption.
Veteran campaigner Hazare, whose protest has hit a chord with Indians fed up with rampant corruption, has struck a deal with police to hold a 15-day hunger strike and is expected to leave prison on Friday, the AP reported.
It looks like he won't be the only one going hungry.
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People watch a grounded Sri Lankan scrapped ship at Juhu beach, in Mumbai, Monday, June 13. The ship MV Wisdom, which broke free of its tug on Saturday and due to strong winds and high currents came dangerously close to a sea link bridge, has become a major tourist attraction, according to local news papers.
Rough weather runs ship aground on Mumbai coast
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Beach goers feed pigeons in Mumbai where a cargo ship ran aground due to rough weather June 12. The 175-meter-long ship named Wisdom, which was being tugged to the Alang scrapyard in Gujarat from Colombo, broke away due to rough weather and drifted its way to the Mumbai coast last night, local media reported.
Hindu New Year celebrated in Mumbai
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Indian women dressed in traditional attire at a procession to celebrate 'Gudi Padwa' or the Maharashtrian new year in Mumbai on Monday, April 4. Gudi Padwa is the Hindu new year for the people of India's state of Maharashtra, that falls on the first day of the month of Chaitra according to the lunar calendar and is celebrated by dancing and singing on the occasion of Thanksgiving. This day marks the end of a harvest and the beginning of a new one, which for an agricultural community signifies the beginning of a New Year.
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People dressed in traditional attire dance during a procession to mark "Gudi Padwa," or Maharashtrian New Year, in Mumbai on Monday.
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Indians watch a procession during celebrations of 'Gudi Padwa' or the Maharashtrian new year in Mumbai on Monday.
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An Indian dressed up at a procession celebrates 'Gudi Padwa' or the Maharashtrian new year in Mumbai on Monday.
AFP reports that 'Gudi Padwa,' or the Maharashtrian new year, is the Hindu new year for the people of India's state of Maharashtra, that falls on the first day of the month of Chaitra according to the lunar calendar and is celebrated by dancing and singing on the occasion of Thanksgiving. This day marks the end of a harvest and the beginning of a new one, which for an agricultural community signifies the beginning of a New Year.
Home of "Slumdog Millionaire" actress destroyed by fire in Mumbai slum
How amazing that someone who acted in an Oscar-winning film just a few years ago still lives in these conditions. Read more here.
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Residents search for their belongings amid the ruins of the Gharib Nagar slum in Mumbai March 5. A fire gutted the slum, a large shanty town which is home to thousands of residents next to Bandra station in Mumbai's suburbs, on Friday evening. The makeshift shack where, Rubina Ali, who acted as young Latika in the oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire", was also destroyed in the blaze.
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Rubina Ali, right, who acted as young Latika in the oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire", sits with her family amid the ruins of the Gharib Nagar slum in Mumbai on March 5. A fire gutted the slum, a large shanty town which is home to thousands of residents next to Bandra station in Mumbai's suburbs on Friday evening. The makeshift shack where Ali lived was also destroyed in the blaze.
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A man jumps in the air to hit a ball as people play cricket by the beach with an improvised stick for a bat and a piece of wood for wickets in Mumbai on Feb. 2.
A makeshift cricket match on a Mumbai beach
The tenth Cricket World Cup, which is going to be co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, takes place from February 19 to April 2.
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Noor Mohammed, a 53-year-old shopkeeper, reads the Koran outside his furniture shop in Mumbai, India on Jan. 27.