This photo was taken in Garpara village of Manikganj district, Bangladesh. Here a section of Muslims mourns from 1-10 of the Arabic months- Muharram. On the 1st day men leave home for 10 days and go from village to village carrying symbolic traditional arms to commemorate the history of Karbala. Emotions and grief are expressed through singing, crying, not bathing, abstaining from eating and sleeping and even fainting. Then on the tenth day all the people of all the villages gather at a designated place, especially at the house of the spiritual leader, and complete the mourning by repeating the said acts throughout the day and by putting down their symbolic arms.
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