Chhath Puja 2012...

A lonely straggler forms a ghostly image at the Chhath Puja (worship) site on the banks of the Teesta river on 19Nov2012. The worship site is lit by neon lights and votive lamps left by devotees who worshiped the setting sun a short while ago. Then the place thronged with bedecked women and their families offering baskets of fruits and marigold flowers to Surya, the Sun God while the air was redolent with smell of burning incense.