Editorial photo #2161224 Human Interest

Kumari Puja Festival Celebrated

A decorated hands and foot of a young girls impersonate as a Kumari or living Goddess during Kumari puja at Basantapur Durbar Square, Katmandu, Nepal on Monday, September 04, 2017. Altogether 108 young girls under the age of nine gathered for the Kumari puja, a tradition of worshiping, which believes doing puja save small girls from diseases and bad luck in future. (Photo by Narayan Maharjan/NurPhoto)

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Photo ID: #2161224
Date taken: 4 September 2017
Location: —
Photographer: Narayan Maharjan/NurPhoto
Category: Human Interest

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