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Devotees perform traditional ritual "Tarpan" at the river of Ganga on the occasion of Sarva Pitri Amavasya to mark the end of Pitrupaksha in Kolkata on Friday, 18 September 2009. Pitru Paksha Shradh, or Pitr Paksh Shraddh, is the annual rites and rituals offered to ancestors, relatives and dead parents in the month of Ashwin in North India and during Bhadrapad in Gujarat and Maharashtra.

Photographer: Bhaskar Mallick

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