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Picture taken at the Hindu festival of Maha Shivratri, celebrated by Hindus worldwide. The festival lasts a day and a half. Honoring Shiva, one of the forms in which God appears to man, food is dedicated and sacrificed, blessings are recanted, lectures held. Some 150,000 Hindus live in the Netherlands, most of them from Surinam, which until recently was a Dutch colony. Their ancestors came to the South-American country from India in the 19th century.
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Picture taken at the Hindu festival of Maha Shivratri, celebrated by Hindus worldwide. The festival lasts a day and a half. Honoring Shiva, one of the forms in which God appears to man, food is dedicated and sacrificed, blessings are recanted, lectures held. Some 150,000 Hindus live in the Netherlands, most of them from Surinam, which until recently was a Dutch colony. Their ancestors came to the South-American country from India in the 19th century.