Annakut in Kolkata

Photograph by Sudipta Maulik , National Geographic Your Shot

Devotees catch rice during Annakut ( heap of grain ) celebrations at a temple in Kolkata, India. I was keen to capture the expressions on the faces along with the showering food, writes Your Shot member Sudipta Maulik . I planned to take the photograph at the moment the food was thrown from just [behind] me on the first-floor veranda of the temple building. I had to wait for a few hours to take it, as there was no way to enter or exit the temple until the end.

Maulik s picture recently appeared in the Your Shot Assignment The Story of Hunger and Hope .

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