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Women devotees of the Bengali community apply Sindoor or vermillion on each other's faces as they take part in the 'Sindoor Puja', a ritual before the immersion of Goddess Durga idols into water bodies on the last day of the Durga Puja Festival in Mumbai, India, 22 October 2015. Sindoor puja marks the end of Durga Puja Festival. The five day long Hindu festival Durga Puja is widely celebrated in the Indian states of West Bengal, Assam, Jharkhand, Orissa and Tripura and culminates in the immersion of the idols of Hindu Goddess Durga, who symbolizes power and the triumph of good over evil in Hindu mythology. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA)
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