Bangali Akhara, Machuatoli, Patna, Bihar, India, 06th April 2014. Biharis celebrate Basaniti puja. The spring festival primarily celebrated by migrant and settled Bengalis is one of the rarest occassion when Basanti or Durga puja is celebrated traditionally twice in India, once in spring and another in autumn. Etymologically Basanti is spring goddesses. This is incredible India. Credit: Rupa Ghosh/Alamy Live News.

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Basantipuja.

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