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November 30,2014 – Varanasi, India, The holy city of Varanasi. According to legend, Varanasi was founded by the God Shiva. The Pandavas, the heroes of the Hindu epic Mahabharata are also stated to have visited the city in search of Shiva to atone for their sins of fratricide and Brāhmanahatya that they had committed during the climactic Kurukshetra war. It is regarded as one of seven holy cities which can provide Moksha.
Bangladeshi small seller sleeps over onion in a wholesale market during the countrywide strike at Kawran Bazar in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led alliance called the dawn-to-dusk countrywide shut down, protesting against the 16th Amendment of the Constitution passed in the Parliament to empower MPs remove top judges.
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November 29,2014 – Varanasi, India - The ancient tradition of Indian wrestling, known as kushti, thrives in Varanasi, one of the world’s oldest cities. Wrestling gyms, or akhara, scattered around the city are of the few places where Hindu men from different casts are considered equals. Now in these days there are not that much mud akhara alive in Varanasi, People are much more interested to play in the mats instead of mud. Varanasi, India.