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Line 11: \| longtype = [[Hindu]] \| image = Charak Puja - Narna - Howrah 2014-04-14 0411.JPG \| caption = Charak Puja being performed at village Narna, [[Howrah district\|Howrah]], April 2014. \| official_name = \| nickname = Nil Puja, Hajrha Puja Line 17: \| begins = \| ends = \| date = Midnight of Songkran ( 13–14 April ) \| date2009 = \| celebrations = Line 26: }} '''Charak Puja''' or '''Pachamara Mela''' (also known as ''Chadak'', ''Nil Puja'' or ''Hajrha Puja'')<ref>from Syncretism, Narratives. "[https://hpuniv.ac.in/hpuniv/upload/uploadfiles/files/HPUJ-June-2022-issue.pdf Mid-Seventeenth-Century Mughal Bengal: A Study of Social Transformation and Narratives from Syncretism to Conflict]." ''Himachal Pradesh University Journal'': 45.</ref> is a [[Hindu]] folk [[festival]] held in honor of the deity [[Shiva]]. The festival is observed in the Indian state of [[West Bengal]], and in [[Bangladesh]] on the last day of the month of ''[[Chaitra]]'' ([[Choitro]] in the [[Bengali calendar]]) at midnight.<ref>{{Cite journal \|last1=Ghosh \|first1=Abhik \|last2=Sinha \|first2=Anil Kishore \|date=October 2007 \|title=A Second Charak Festival from Delhi \|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09720073.2007.11891014 \|journal=The Anthropologist \|language=en \|volume=9 \|issue=4 \|pages=289–294 \|doi=10.1080/09720073.2007.11891014 \|s2cid=80082768 \|issn=0972-0073}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news \|date=14 April 2022 \|title=Charak Puja 2022: Charak Puja Priested by Fallen Brahmins! Know the unknown story \|pages=1 \|work=bangla.aajtak. in \|url=https://bangla.aajtak.in/dharm-religion/story/charak-puja-2022-bengali-hindu-folk-festival-celebrated-honor-god-shiva-chaitra-sankranti-west-bengal-and-bangladesh-unknown-facts-soc-363907-2022-04-14 \|access-date=14 April 2022}}</ref> People believe that by satisfying Shiva, the festival will bring prosperity to them, eliminating the sorrow and sufferings of the previous year. Line 44: ==See also== * [[{{section link\|Banawadi#\|Banawadi Bagad]]}} * [[Gajan (festival)]] * * [[Danza de los Voladores]] * [[Sirimanothsavam]]