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2 October 2025

Married female devotees smear each other with vermillion and offer sweets to the idol of the Goddess ahead of her immersion in the river Ganges on the last day of the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, India, on October 2, 2025.

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#12820929

2 October 2025

Married female devotees smear each other with vermillion and offer sweets to the idol of the Goddess ahead of her immersion in the river Ganges on the last day of the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, India, on October 2, 2025.

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#12820930

2 October 2025

Married female devotees smear each other with vermillion and offer sweets to the idol of the Goddess ahead of her immersion in the river Ganges on the last day of the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, India, on October 2, 2025.

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#12820931

2 October 2025

Married female devotees smear each other with vermillion and offer sweets to the idol of the Goddess ahead of her immersion in the river Ganges on the last day of the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, India, on October 2, 2025.

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#12820932

2 October 2025

Married female devotees smear each other with vermillion and offer sweets to the idol of the Goddess ahead of her immersion in the river Ganges on the last day of the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, India, on October 2, 2025.

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#12820933

2 October 2025

Married female devotees smear each other with vermillion and offer sweets to the idol of the Goddess ahead of her immersion in the river Ganges on the last day of the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, India, on October 2, 2025.

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2 October 2025

Married female devotees smear each other with vermillion and offer sweets to the idol of the Goddess ahead of her immersion in the river Ganges on the last day of the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, India, on October 2, 2025.

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#12813433

30 September 2025

Devotees worship a young girl during Kumari Puja on Ashtami at Ramakrishna Mission in Dhaka, Bangladesh, marking the divine essence of Goddess Durga.

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30 September 2025

Devotees worship a young girl during Kumari Puja on Ashtami at Ramakrishna Mission in Dhaka, Bangladesh, marking the divine essence of Goddess Durga.

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30 September 2025

Devotees worship a young girl during Kumari Puja on Ashtami at Ramakrishna Mission in Dhaka, Bangladesh, marking the divine essence of Goddess Durga.

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30 September 2025

Devotees worship a young girl during Kumari Puja on Ashtami at Ramakrishna Mission in Dhaka, Bangladesh, marking the divine essence of Goddess Durga.

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#12809297

29 September 2025

ARYA TARA SHAKYA, 2 1/2 years old, is Nepal's newly appointed Royal Living Goddess Kumari from Itumbahal. She is seen at her home ahead of being formally worshipped at the historic Kumari Ghar in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 29, 2025. She is formally worshipped as Royal Kumari on September 30, 2025, succeeding TRISHNA SHAKYA, who serves until reaching puberty, around age 12. The centuries-old tradition reveres the Living Goddess as an embodiment of the Hindu goddess Taleju, worshipped by both Hindus and Buddhists.

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29 September 2025

ARYA TARA SHAKYA, 2 1/2 years old, Nepal's newly appointed Royal Living Goddess Kumari from Itumbahal, is seen at her home with her father and mother ahead of being formally worshipped at the historic Kumari Ghar in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 29, 2025. She is formally worshipped as Royal Kumari on September 30, 2025, succeeding TRISHNA SHAKYA, who serves until reaching puberty, around age 12. The centuries-old tradition sees the Living Goddess revered by both Hindus and Buddhists as an embodiment of the goddess Taleju.

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29 September 2025

ARYA TARA SHAKYA, 2 1/2 years old, is Nepal's newly appointed Royal Living Goddess Kumari from Itumbahal. She is seen at her home ahead of being formally worshipped at the historic Kumari Ghar in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 29, 2025. She is formally worshipped as Royal Kumari on September 30, 2025, succeeding TRISHNA SHAKYA, who serves until reaching puberty, around age 12. The centuries-old tradition reveres the Living Goddess as an embodiment of the Hindu goddess Taleju, worshipped by both Hindus and Buddhists.

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#12809302

29 September 2025

ARYA TARA SHAKYA, 2 1/2 years old, is Nepal's newly appointed Royal Living Goddess Kumari from Itumbahal. She is seen at her home ahead of being formally worshipped at the historic Kumari Ghar in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 29, 2025. She is formally worshipped as Royal Kumari on September 30, 2025, succeeding TRISHNA SHAKYA, who serves until reaching puberty, around age 12. The centuries-old tradition reveres the Living Goddess as an embodiment of the Hindu goddess Taleju, worshipped by both Hindus and Buddhists.

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#12787474

23 September 2025

A couple walks hand in hand through pedestrian streets in Utrecht, Netherlands, on September 8, 2025.

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