A Muslim man participates in a Muharram procession in Kolkata on Friday, 17 December 2010. The religious festival of Ashura, which includes a ten-day mourning period starting on the first day of Muharram on the Islamic calendar, commemorates the seventh-century slaying of Prophet Mohammed"s grandson Imam Hussein in Karbala. Picture by Bhaskar Mallick / Fotocorp

Photographer: Bhaskar Mallick

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