A child praying during the occasion of a Bengali festival called Chadak while a man hangs from a bamboo stick, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Charak puja is a traditional Bengali festival celebrated mainly in the rural areas. A festival dedicated strictly to penance, Charak puja stands unique in the scenario of Bengali festivals. At the time of mid April a festival of Hindu mythology and cultural origin ‘GAJAN and CHADAK’ is celebrated everywhere particularly in rural Bengal is intended to express devotion to Gods and Goddesses and also to earn blessings of the deities through severe physical pain. Communities in the so - called lower ladder of the Hindu society take to their festivals through Folk ritual and the like; these communities have been left as outcast for years on end due to the torture of the caste system.
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