India Celebrates Dussehra Festival

Millions of Hindus across northern India are celebrating a religious festival that symbolises the triumph of good over evil, with traditional theatre and the burning of giant effigies. Outside the walls of the Indian capital's imposing Red Fort, plays are performed nightly that re-enact revered Hindu deity Ram's battle to kill the demon king Ravana. In the nine days leading up to the Dussehra festival, which falls this year on October 3, hundreds are ...