Honorable Mention
Terrific Ritual
DESCRIPTION
Hindu devotees parade with human skull and remains during Shiva-Gajan festival at Kurmun ,India. Shiva-Gajan is a traditional festival performed on the last day of Bengali calendar year when members of the community exhume body parts from graveyards and carry them in a procession to appease Hindu Lord . These skulls or heads are procured each year separately by undisclosed methods. AUTHOR
I am Arijit Saha . I am a features photographer , when i say features photographer i mean i click pictures of people participating in fair, festival,parties,travelling and sharing moments in each others. Photography is my profession and my life. I was born in murshidabad a small district in west Bengal, famous for the palace with a thousand doors known as Hazarduari and i haven been staying in kolkata for 10 years .