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People from the Pnar community move around a Rot themed stop women harrasment as they celebrate an event organised to mark the Behdienkhlam festival in Jowai, India on July 14, 2025. Behdienkhlam is a vibrant annual festival celebrated by the Pnar (Jaintia) community of Meghalaya, especially in Jowai, to drive away plague and diseases and to pray for a good harvest. Observed in July after the sowing season, it features traditional rituals, offerings to ancestral spirits, and the grand procession of beautifully decorated bamboo structures called rots, which are later immersed in a sacred muddy pool known as Ka Aitnar

Date

13 juil. 2025

Crédit

Photo12/imageBROKER/Infinity News Collective

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BRK25L92_498

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Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

73,1Mo (5,3Mo) / 52,7cm x 34,7cm / 6230 x 4100 (300dpi)

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