Indian devotees mark the last day of the Bengali calendar with the Gajan festival, a Hindu celebration held in honor of Shiva, one of the religion’s principal deities. In Shiblun, a remote village in Burdwan district around 200 kilometers from the eastern city of Kolkata, worshippers paint their faces red and perform ritual dances with skulls to pay homage the Hindu god of destruction. ‘Human skulls are being carried. People assume that the evil spirits of Lord Shiva’s followers also come. So they dress up in different ways during this Gajan festival,’ Satyaprakash Mukherjee, a local villager told AFP.
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