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Muslims observes Muharram in Guwahati

Shia Muslims carry Tazias during a Muharram procession in Guwahati on Monday, 28 December 2009. 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: Ujjal Deb

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