Shiite Muslims take part in a self-flagellation ritual during a religious procession of the Ashura mourning period in New Delhi 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.
Photographer: A Sarthak
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