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16 Apr 2026

Hindu devotees perform ritual body-piercing and suspension during Charak Puja on April 14, 2026. The centuries-old festival, rooted in Bengali folk traditions and observed on Chaitra Sankranti, involves acts of physical endurance and devotion, as participants believe the rituals bring prosperity and cleanse the sorrows and suffering of the past year.

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16 Apr 2026

Hindu devotees perform ritual body-piercing and suspension during Charak Puja on April 14, 2026. The centuries-old festival, rooted in Bengali folk traditions and observed on Chaitra Sankranti, involves acts of physical endurance and devotion, as participants believe the rituals bring prosperity and cleanse the sorrows and suffering of the past year.

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16 Apr 2026

Hindu devotees perform ritual body-piercing and suspension during Charak Puja on April 14, 2026. The centuries-old festival, rooted in Bengali folk traditions and observed on Chaitra Sankranti, involves acts of physical endurance and devotion, as participants believe the rituals bring prosperity and cleanse the sorrows and suffering of the past year.

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16 Apr 2026

Hindu devotees perform ritual body-piercing and suspension during Charak Puja on April 14, 2026. The centuries-old festival, rooted in Bengali folk traditions and observed on Chaitra Sankranti, involves acts of physical endurance and devotion, as participants believe the rituals bring prosperity and cleanse the sorrows and suffering of the past year.

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16 Apr 2026

Hindu devotees perform ritual body-piercing and suspension during Charak Puja on April 14, 2026. The centuries-old festival, rooted in Bengali folk traditions and observed on Chaitra Sankranti, involves acts of physical endurance and devotion, as participants believe the rituals bring prosperity and cleanse the sorrows and suffering of the past year.

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16 Apr 2026

Hindu devotees perform ritual body-piercing and suspension during Charak Puja on April 14, 2026. The centuries-old festival, rooted in Bengali folk traditions and observed on Chaitra Sankranti, involves acts of physical endurance and devotion, as participants believe the rituals bring prosperity and cleanse the sorrows and suffering of the past year.

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16 Apr 2026

Hindu devotees perform ritual body-piercing and suspension during Charak Puja on April 14, 2026. The centuries-old festival, rooted in Bengali folk traditions and observed on Chaitra Sankranti, involves acts of physical endurance and devotion, as participants believe the rituals bring prosperity and cleanse the sorrows and suffering of the past year.

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16 Apr 2026

Hindu devotees perform ritual body-piercing and suspension during Charak Puja on April 14, 2026. The centuries-old festival, rooted in Bengali folk traditions and observed on Chaitra Sankranti, involves acts of physical endurance and devotion, as participants believe the rituals bring prosperity and cleanse the sorrows and suffering of the past year.

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16 Apr 2026

Hindu devotees perform ritual body-piercing and suspension during Charak Puja on April 14, 2026. The centuries-old festival, rooted in Bengali folk traditions and observed on Chaitra Sankranti, involves acts of physical endurance and devotion, as participants believe the rituals bring prosperity and cleanse the sorrows and suffering of the past year.

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16 Apr 2026

Hindu devotees perform ritual body-piercing and suspension during Charak Puja on April 14, 2026. The centuries-old festival, rooted in Bengali folk traditions and observed on Chaitra Sankranti, involves acts of physical endurance and devotion, as participants believe the rituals bring prosperity and cleanse the sorrows and suffering of the past year.

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16 Apr 2026

Hindu devotees perform ritual body-piercing and suspension during Charak Puja on April 14, 2026. The centuries-old festival, rooted in Bengali folk traditions and observed on Chaitra Sankranti, involves acts of physical endurance and devotion, as participants believe the rituals bring prosperity and cleanse the sorrows and suffering of the past year.

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16 Apr 2026

Hindu devotees perform ritual body-piercing and suspension during Charak Puja on April 14, 2026. The centuries-old festival, rooted in Bengali folk traditions and observed on Chaitra Sankranti, involves acts of physical endurance and devotion, as participants believe the rituals bring prosperity and cleanse the sorrows and suffering of the past year.

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1 Feb 2026

Hindu devotees make their way towards the Batu Caves temple during the Thaipusam festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on February 1, 2026. Thaipusam is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly by the Tamil community. Devotees pray and make vows, and when the prayers are answered, they fulfill the vows by piercing parts of their body such as their cheeks, tongues, and backs before carrying a 'Kavadi' or milk pots on a four-kilometre journey of faith.

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1 Feb 2026

Hindu devotees make their way towards the Batu Caves temple during the Thaipusam festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on February 1, 2026. Thaipusam is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly by the Tamil community. Devotees pray and make vows, and when the prayers are answered, they fulfill the vows by piercing parts of their body such as their cheeks, tongues, and backs before carrying a 'Kavadi' or milk pots on a four-kilometre journey of faith.

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1 Feb 2026

Hindu devotees carry kavadi on their shoulders as they make their way towards the Batu Caves temple during the Thaipusam festival outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on February 1, 2026. Thaipusam is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly by the Tamil community. Devotees pray and make vows, and when the prayers are answered, they fulfill the vows by piercing parts of their body such as their cheeks, tongues, and backs before carrying a 'Kavadi' or milk pots on a four-kilometre journey of faith.

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1 Feb 2026

A devotee carries the kavadi during the Thaipusam festival outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on February 1, 2026. Thaipusam is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly by the Tamil community. Devotees pray and make vows, and when the prayers are answered, they fulfill the vows by piercing parts of their body such as their cheeks, tongues, and backs before carrying a 'Kavadi' or milk pots on a four-kilometre journey of faith.

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