Devotees with hooks piercing the skin of their backs are hung with ropes, as part of the Charak Puja Festival ritual, during Poush Shonkhanti of Bangl

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Devotees with hooks piercing the skin of their backs are hung with ropes, as part of the Charak Puja Festival ritual, during Poush Shonkhanti of Bangla Calendar year. They trust the festival will carry prosperity by eliminating the sorrow and sufferings of the previous year through hardships on the body. Charak Puja (Devotion to God) is an ancient Hindu religious and folk festival. On January 14, 20222 in Kulawra, Bangladesh. (Photo by Md Rafayat Haque Khan/ Eyepix Group)

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