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#13573825

13 Apr 2026

Devotees wearing handcrafted wooden masks perform the traditional Mukha Naach through a rice field towards a house during the annual Bikat Kali Puja festival in Hili village along the India-Bangladesh border on April 13, 2026. Participants move from house to house, their masked performances blending devotion and folklore, as villagers gather to witness and contribute offerings. The vibrant ritual forms an integral part of the festivities dedicated to Kali in her fierce Bikat form.

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#13573826

13 Apr 2026

Devotees wearing handcrafted wooden masks perform the traditional Mukha Naach through a rice field towards a house during the annual Bikat Kali Puja festival in Hili village along the India-Bangladesh border on April 13, 2026. Participants move from house to house, their masked performances blending devotion and folklore, as villagers gather to witness and contribute offerings. The vibrant ritual forms an integral part of the festivities dedicated to Kali in her fierce Bikat form.

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#13573829

13 Apr 2026

Devotees wearing handcrafted wooden masks perform the traditional Mukha Naach through a rice field towards a house during the annual Bikat Kali Puja festival in Hili village along the India-Bangladesh border on April 13, 2026. Participants move from house to house, their masked performances blending devotion and folklore, as villagers gather to witness and contribute offerings. The vibrant ritual forms an integral part of the festivities dedicated to Kali in her fierce Bikat form.

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#13573831

13 Apr 2026

Devotees wearing handcrafted wooden masks perform the traditional Mukha Naach through a rice field towards a house during the annual Bikat Kali Puja festival in Hili village along the India-Bangladesh border on April 13, 2026. Participants move from house to house, their masked performances blending devotion and folklore, as villagers gather to witness and contribute offerings. The vibrant ritual forms an integral part of the festivities dedicated to Kali in her fierce Bikat form.

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#13573834

13 Apr 2026

Devotees wearing handcrafted wooden masks perform the traditional Mukha Naach through a rice field towards a house during the annual Bikat Kali Puja festival in Hili village along the India-Bangladesh border on April 13, 2026. Participants move from house to house, their masked performances blending devotion and folklore, as villagers gather to witness and contribute offerings. The vibrant ritual forms an integral part of the festivities dedicated to Kali in her fierce Bikat form.

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#13203594

16 Jan 2026

Dancers perform traditional Mech, Rabha, and Nepali dance as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurates and lays the foundation stone of the proposed Mahakal Mahatirtha temple in the Matigara area on the outskirts of Siliguri, India, on January 16, 2026.

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#13203597

16 Jan 2026

Dancers perform traditional Mech, Rabha, and Nepali dance as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurates and lays the foundation stone of the proposed Mahakal Mahatirtha temple in the Matigara area on the outskirts of Siliguri, India, on January 16, 2026.

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#13179023

11 Jan 2026

Traditional dancers take part in the annual Duruthu Buddhist procession in Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, on January 11, 2026.

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#13179024

11 Jan 2026

Traditional dancers take part in the annual Duruthu Buddhist procession in Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, on January 11, 2026.

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#13179029

11 Jan 2026

Traditional dancers take part in the annual Duruthu Buddhist procession in Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, on January 11, 2026.

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#13179031

11 Jan 2026

Traditional dancers take part in the annual Duruthu Buddhist procession in Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, on January 11, 2026.

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#13179034

11 Jan 2026

Traditional dancers take part in the annual Duruthu Buddhist procession in Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, on January 11, 2026.

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#12945922

4 Nov 2025

NARSINGH touches and kills HIRANYAKASHYAPU during the eighth day of the Kartik Naach at Kartik Dabali, Patan Durbar Square, in Patan, Nepal, on November 3, which extends into November 4. Lord Vishnu, in his half-man, half-lion form, emerges from the pillar at twilight to protect his devotee PRAHLAD. Using his divine strength and claws, NARSINGH strikes down the tyrant king, fulfilling Brahma’s boon while restoring dharma. The scene symbolizes the triumph of good over evil and forms the climax of the ten-day traditional dance-drama dating back to the 17th-century Malla period.

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#12698447

31 Aug 2025

Women perform a dance during the Onam festival in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada, on August 30, 2025. Onam is a major annual event for Malayali people in and outside Kerala. Onam is a harvest festival and is one of three major annual Hindu celebrations along with Vishu and Thiruvathira observed by Keralites.

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#12698557

31 Aug 2025

Women perform a dance during the Onam festival in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada, on August 30, 2025. Onam is a major annual event for Malayali people in and outside Kerala. Onam is a harvest festival and is one of three major annual Hindu celebrations along with Vishu and Thiruvathira observed by Keralites.

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#12646523

15 Aug 2025

Indian artists perform the traditional Kathakali Dance during an event organized in Lalitpur, Nepal, on August 15, 2025, on the occasion of the 79th Independence Day of India. Kathakali, as a dance form popular today, evolves from many social and religious theatrical forms that exist in the southern region of India in ancient times.

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