Nepalese women look out from the window of a Kumari house as devotees gather near the chariot of the living goddess Kumari during the Indra Jatra Festival in Kathmandu. The annual festival, named after Indra, the Hindu god of rain and heaven, is celebrated by worshipping, rejoicing, singing, dancing and feasting in Kathmandu Valley to mark the end of monsoon season. The festival, during which Indra, the living goddess Kumari and other deities are worshipped, starts after the erecting of a "lingo", a long wooden pole, on September 27 and ends after it is pulled down on October 3.NAVESH CHITRAKAR/Reuters