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Dussehra: Covid-19 forces grand Hindu festival to go online – BBC News
The pandemic has interrupted a centuries-old Indian tradition, the yearly performance of an ancient Hindu epic.
image captionMithilesh Pandey gets ready to perform as Lord Ram
Celebrations for one of India’s biggest festivals have been forced to go online because of the pandemic, report BBC’s Aparna Alluri and photojournalist Ankit Srinivas.
Mithilesh Pandey finally caught an acting break this year.
The 22-year-old is playing the deity Lord Ram in Ramlila, a yearly folk dramatisation of the Ramayana, a two millennia-old epic revered by Hindus.
Ram is the hero of this enduring tale of familial obligations,…
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