During Holi, women gather outside Hanuman Dhoka to weave threads around a 'tree' photo

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19-MAR-2011

During Holi, women gather outside Hanuman Dhoka to weave threads around a 'tree'

The chir pole or tree symbolises the tree around which a playful Krishna once draped the garments shed by milkmaids bathing in the Jamuna River of northern India.

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1/125s f/6.3 at 24.0mm iso400 full exif

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