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Faces of the day: The Navratri festival in India

by | 1st, April 2012

FACES of the Day: Hindu devotees take part in the Navratri festival in Bhopal, India; and an Indian barber cuts the hair of a young girl as part of a ritual during the Hindu festival of Ram Navami, at a temple in Allahabad. Ram Navami is a celebration of the birthday of the Hindu God Lord Rama. Other Hindus carry knives and flex their muscles…

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A Hindu devotee has a steel rod placed through his cheek during a procession for the Navratri festival in Bhopal, India, Sunday, April 1, 2012. The Navratri festival is celebrated twice a year, once during the spring season and the other in the autumn. (AP Photo/Rajeev Gupta)



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