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20 images Created 13 Jan 2024
The portrait of a group of people who believe they act like a God to perform for the Hindu community people in Koira, Bangladesh on the occasion of the Bengali New Year festival. The performance is a very enchanting folk festival of the Southern Belt of Bangladesh and West Bengal. The believers of the Hindu religion celebrate this on the last day of Chaitra (Chaitra Songkranti). People believe that the festival will bring prosperity by eliminating the sorrow and sufferings of the previous year. The traditional performance is celebrated mainly in rural areas. A group of Hindu community men and women take a Brata' or the time-bound ritual, have to go through a month-long fasting from sunrise to sunset, live strictly on fruits & perform daily worship to get blessings from the lord. The festival not only reflects blind faith but also the eagerness to accept penance on the road to achieve salvation.