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27 December 2025

Chhinnamasta, also known as Chhinnamastika or Chhinnamasta Kali, is a Hindu goddess symbolizing both aspects of Devi - a life-giver and a life-taker. The Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta holds significant importance in both Tantric and Tibetan Buddhism, where she is known as Chinnamunda or Trikaya-vajrayogini. She embodies contradictions, representing sexual self-control and energy. The self-decapitated nude goddess usually stands or sits on a divine copulating couple, holding her own severed head in one hand and a scimitar in another. Three jets of blood spurt out of her bleeding neck and are drunk by her severed head and two attendants. Here, the Chhinnamasta goddess is worshipped with the playing of dhak, drums, and shehnai (a type of wind instrument) in a temple in Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on December 25, 2025.

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27 December 2025

Chhinnamasta, also known as Chhinnamastika or Chhinnamasta Kali, is a Hindu goddess symbolizing both aspects of Devi - a life-giver and a life-taker. The Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta holds significant importance in both Tantric and Tibetan Buddhism, where she is known as Chinnamunda or Trikaya-vajrayogini. She embodies contradictions, representing sexual self-control and energy. The self-decapitated nude goddess usually stands or sits on a divine copulating couple, holding her own severed head in one hand and a scimitar in another. Three jets of blood spurt out of her bleeding neck and are drunk by her severed head and two attendants. Here, the Chhinnamasta goddess is worshipped with the playing of dhak, drums, and shehnai (a type of wind instrument) in a temple in Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on December 25, 2025.

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27 December 2025

Chhinnamasta, also known as Chhinnamastika or Chhinnamasta Kali, is a Hindu goddess symbolizing both aspects of Devi - a life-giver and a life-taker. The Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta holds significant importance in both Tantric and Tibetan Buddhism, where she is known as Chinnamunda or Trikaya-vajrayogini. She embodies contradictions, representing sexual self-control and energy. The self-decapitated nude goddess usually stands or sits on a divine copulating couple, holding her own severed head in one hand and a scimitar in another. Three jets of blood spurt out of her bleeding neck and are drunk by her severed head and two attendants. Here, the Chhinnamasta goddess is worshipped with the playing of dhak, drums, and shehnai (a type of wind instrument) in a temple in Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on December 25, 2025.

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27 December 2025

Chhinnamasta, also known as Chhinnamastika or Chhinnamasta Kali, is a Hindu goddess symbolizing both aspects of Devi - a life-giver and a life-taker. The Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta holds significant importance in both Tantric and Tibetan Buddhism, where she is known as Chinnamunda or Trikaya-vajrayogini. She embodies contradictions, representing sexual self-control and energy. The self-decapitated nude goddess usually stands or sits on a divine copulating couple, holding her own severed head in one hand and a scimitar in another. Three jets of blood spurt out of her bleeding neck and are drunk by her severed head and two attendants. Here, the Chhinnamasta goddess is worshipped with the playing of dhak, drums, and shehnai (a type of wind instrument) in a temple in Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on December 25, 2025.

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27 December 2025

Chhinnamasta, also known as Chhinnamastika or Chhinnamasta Kali, is a Hindu goddess symbolizing both aspects of Devi - a life-giver and a life-taker. The Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta holds significant importance in both Tantric and Tibetan Buddhism, where she is known as Chinnamunda or Trikaya-vajrayogini. She embodies contradictions, representing sexual self-control and energy. The self-decapitated nude goddess usually stands or sits on a divine copulating couple, holding her own severed head in one hand and a scimitar in another. Three jets of blood spurt out of her bleeding neck and are drunk by her severed head and two attendants. Here, the Chhinnamasta goddess is worshipped with the playing of dhak, drums, and shehnai (a type of wind instrument) in a temple in Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on December 25, 2025.

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27 December 2025

Chhinnamasta, also known as Chhinnamastika or Chhinnamasta Kali, is a Hindu goddess symbolizing both aspects of Devi - a life-giver and a life-taker. The Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta holds significant importance in both Tantric and Tibetan Buddhism, where she is known as Chinnamunda or Trikaya-vajrayogini. She embodies contradictions, representing sexual self-control and energy. The self-decapitated nude goddess usually stands or sits on a divine copulating couple, holding her own severed head in one hand and a scimitar in another. Three jets of blood spurt out of her bleeding neck and are drunk by her severed head and two attendants. Here, the Chhinnamasta goddess is worshipped with the playing of dhak, drums, and shehnai (a type of wind instrument) in a temple in Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on December 25, 2025.

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25 December 2025

VHP and Bajrang Dal activists burn an effigy of Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser of Bangladesh's interim government, during a protest against atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh, in Ajmer, India, on December 24, 2025.

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25 December 2025

VHP and Bajrang Dal activists burn an effigy of Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser of Bangladesh's interim government, during a protest against atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh, in Ajmer, India, on December 24, 2025.

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25 December 2025

VHP and Bajrang Dal activists burn an effigy of Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser of Bangladesh's interim government, during a protest against atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh, in Ajmer, India, on December 24, 2025.

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25 December 2025

A person sells photos of Jesus and a Hindu god outside a church during the Christmas festival in Kolkata, India, on December 25, 2025.

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24 December 2025

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters, along with BJP MLA of Dabgram Fulbari Sikha Chatterjee, shout slogans and block the main road for Indian and Bangladesh vehicles at the Fulbari border area on the outskirts of Siliguri, India, on December 24, 2025, against the recent violent protests and killings of Hindu people in Bangladesh.

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24 December 2025

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters, along with BJP MLA of Dabgram Fulbari Sikha Chatterjee, shout slogans and block the main road for Indian and Bangladesh vehicles at the Fulbari border area on the outskirts of Siliguri, India, on December 24, 2025, against the recent violent protests and killings of Hindu people in Bangladesh.

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24 December 2025

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters, along with BJP MLA of Dabgram Fulbari Sikha Chatterjee, shout slogans and block the main road for Indian and Bangladesh vehicles at the Fulbari border area on the outskirts of Siliguri, India, on December 24, 2025, against the recent violent protests and killings of Hindu people in Bangladesh.

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24 December 2025

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters, along with BJP MLA of Dabgram Fulbari Sikha Chatterjee, shout slogans and block the main road for Indian and Bangladesh vehicles at the Fulbari border area on the outskirts of Siliguri, India, on December 24, 2025, against the recent violent protests and killings of Hindu people in Bangladesh.

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24 December 2025

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters, along with BJP MLA of Dabgram Fulbari Sikha Chatterjee, shout slogans and block the main road for Indian and Bangladesh vehicles at the Fulbari border area on the outskirts of Siliguri, India, on December 24, 2025, against the recent violent protests and killings of Hindu people in Bangladesh.

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23 December 2025

Indian security personnel frisk a vehicle along a road during a security check in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on December 23, 2025. Security is on high alert across the Kashmir Valley ahead of the Christmas and New Year celebrations. Officials say a high level of vigilance is maintained across the city, with increased patrolling, checkpoints, and deployment of additional personnel at sensitive locations. They say the focus remains on maintaining law and order while allowing normal activities to continue without disruption. Meanwhile, amid growing intelligence inputs indicating militants prepare to hit high-value targets in Jammu and Kashmir, Director General of Police (DGP) Nalin Prabhat on Monday, December 22, 2025, says terror groups and their supporters are ''firmly on the radar of the law enforcement agencies,'' The Hindu reports.

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