Allahabad Triveni sangamam is well known to all Hindus and all Indians. I worked in DMSRDE Kanpur from May 1988 upto Feb 2004. I attended the marriage of Dr A K Tripati at Allahabad in the year 1990 along with my family. Janardan sriram also came but alone. We enjoyed every bit of marriage party as we are from the grooms side and the bride's family has given warm welcome as we are special invitees. It is one of the happy social gathering and memorable incident during our Kanpur stay.
On the 2nd day after the marriage, we went to see the Allahabad Triveni Sangamam where the Ganga and Yamuna rivers meet. The third river Saraswathi is invisible. Then some people go inside to bathe but we did not venture into that as the flow was high. Janardan sriram told me stories that the boat walas do mischievous things during kumbha mela (that comes once in 12 years) to pay homage to the departed souls. People from all parts of India will arrive for the Kumbha mela. Janardan told us that they (boat walas take them inside on boat and then drench the boat and remove the gold ornaments in the pretext of bringing them out of the waters to safety.
It may be true but, I was not in a position to ruin my happy visit with this type of thoughts at that oment. I cut short his talk by changing to another topic on science.
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