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What a festival of colour Chhat has turned into. Women dress in almost bridal finery to pray to the Sun god, standing shin deep in cold water in the late autumn season, as music blares from loud speakers, in an improvised government-created water body lined with plastic, to emulated the Yamuna river. This has been done since water immersions are now banned, and to facilitate local communities to pray and also build a political support base with the important Purvanchali population! Much diesel is spent as water is brought in in tankers, from ground water sources... The environmental cost of religion! Women line up in colourful sarees for Chhath Puja in Delhi, in improvised plastic lined water tank! This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd.,
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