The sun is covered by the moon during a total solar eclipse seen from Assi Ghat in Varanasi on Wednesday, 22 July 2009. The next one will be visible in the Indian sub-continent only 105 years later, on 03 June 2114.

Photographer: Bhaskar Mallick

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