Varanasi: Maintaining the custom, the sex workers carried out dance and track amid burning pyres at Manikarnika Ghat in the honour of Mahashamshannath (Lord of cremation floor) on the 7th night time of Chaitra Navratra on Friday night time. Vocalist Soma Ghosh additionally took section in the programme.
This extraordinary show used to be held at a makeshift degree on the financial institution of Ganga at Manikarnika Ghat , where a number of pyres were burning all the way through the efficiency. Before the degree show the sex workers worshipped the deity on the nearby Mahashamshan Nath Temple. Vocalist Soma Ghosh additionally recited bhajan, dadta, thumri and chaiti on the occasion. The programme persevered till middle of the night. According to organizers Gulshan Kapoor and Chainu Prasad Gupta, the custom has been happening for five centuries.
This extraordinary show used to be held at a makeshift degree on the financial institution of Ganga at Manikarnika Ghat , where a number of pyres were burning all the way through the efficiency. Before the degree show the sex workers worshipped the deity on the nearby Mahashamshan Nath Temple. Vocalist Soma Ghosh additionally recited bhajan, dadta, thumri and chaiti on the occasion. The programme persevered till middle of the night. According to organizers Gulshan Kapoor and Chainu Prasad Gupta, the custom has been happening for five centuries.
Sex workers dance amid burning pyres at city ghat
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