<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5cc91fe2-0b48-42f7-9c7d-07cc9d43c4eb/6F1294B5-2459-4A8C-8809-428392C26277/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/In-this-village-man-takes-dip-with-Goddess/articleshow/5070332.cms" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/In-this-village-man-takes-dip-with-Goddess/articleshow/5070332.cms" style="font-size: 11px;">timesofindia.indiatimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/In-this-village-man-takes-dip-with-Goddess/articleshow/5070332.cms">Shyampur village in Bhadrak district has a bizarre Durga Puja tradition: on Dashami when Goddess Durga is immersed in water in a <TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left"><TBODY><TR><TD id="bellyad"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE width="200" align="left" class="cnt"></TABLE> ceremonial farewell, Shyampur devotees dress up a villager and 'immerse' him in a pond. For over a century, the village has been carrying out the tradition called 'Kalisi Yatra' in the belief that the spirit of the goddess enters the man's body. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/In-this-village-man-takes-dip-with-Goddess/articleshow/5070332.cms">On Monday, Shyampur villagers garlanded Narayan Sahoo, applied vermilion and sandalwood paste on his forehead and took him around in a colourful procession and then 'immersed' him in the Balipokhari pond in Dakhinabadi village. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6F1294B5-2459-4A8C-8809-428392C26277/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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