article_snippet.sent: The annual fire festival lasts for 11 days and sees dozens of participants dangle over the roaring flames while a Hindu priest uses oil to stoke the blaze as a Hindu priest chants religious hymns. '
article_snippet.sent: Raging: Seconds later the participants throw the participants into the flame while a Hindu priest (left) throws oil to intensify the inferno .
article_snippet.sent: Religious: The annual fire festival lasts for 11 days and sees dozens of participants dangle over the flames while a Hindu priest uses oil to stoke the blaze as a Hindu priest chants religious hymns .
article_snippet.sent: The villagers claim The annual fire festival is being celebrated from thousands of years, however The villagers say now the duration has been trimmed because of rapid urbanisation in the area. '
article_snippet.sent: Vijay Kumar Sahu, 63, who has been organising The annual fire festival for the past 52 years, also fears that there had been too many changes made in the ritual. '
highlights_snippet.sent: As those taking part get closer to the fire, a Hindu priest throws oil to intensify the blaze ever further .
  