Kandhon pe kaavar rakh ke niklein hain bhakton ke tole/Bhole bhole, bhole/Bhole bhole, bhole! sing a line of kesar-clad marchers (though they either trot or jog) bearing tinsel-trimmed palanquins of Gangajal called kavars to the filmi tune Ole ole, ole. It’s a chant that can be heard all across Delhi, along with another one, ‘‘Bum bum ka naara hai, Bhole tera sahara hai. Rushing back in lakhs from Neelkanth Mahadev, a 21-km climb above Rishikesh, or Gomukh, the icy source of the Ganga in the Himalayas, these devotees have currently congregated in 37 camps all over New Delhi. Their vessels filled with Gangajal, they are headed home to villages and towns in Haryana, Rajasthan and Western Uttar Pradesh, in time for Shiv Chaudas on Thursday.