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This one shows the climax of the <i>charak pûjâ</i>. This is a Bengali festival of penance, in which groups of men and women spend a month fasting from sunrise to sunset and living only on fruit. On the day of the <i>charak</i> itself, people construct bamboo stages on top of poles, at a height ranging from three to five metres.  The devotees step up on to the high bamboo stage and, with ropes attached to them, hurl themselves forward.","physicalDescription":"The Hook-swinging festival (Chadak parvan). 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