RSC0262 Hindu religious rituals Indian middle class women preparing for Sun worship on the occasion of Chhatha Pooja an annual celebration and festival celebrated on the sixth day of the Kartik month of the Hindu calander Each group create a place of worship by putting sugar cane in the ground and decorating the place with light made of clay worshiping starts with a bath in the available water body Women offer water to the setting sun standing in the water and pray for the well being of the family They sit by the place right up to the morning singing folk songs The festival comes to an end after praying to the new Sun of the morning Migrated families from the north India celebrating festival on the Juhu sea beach with the various fruits ready for the offering Bombay now Mumbai Maharastra India
