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Nepalese people sing and dance to traditional music while smearing vermilion colour powder during the “Sindoor Jatra” festival as part of the Bisket Jatra festival in Thimi, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, 15 April 2019. The Bisket festival is celebrated to mark the Nepali New Year 2076, especially in the ethnic Newar communities in Bhaktapur. During the festival ethnic newar devotees carrying a chariot of Hindu gods and goddesses and smear vermilion-color powder on each other faces. It is celebrated in hope of protection from all natural calamities and support for a good harvest for the coming year. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE)
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