In fairs across India, the maut-ka-kuan (well-of-death) performance is a high stakes, maximum eyeballs sell-out, performed by young men who also help set up the gravity-defying arena. This one was held during a mela for Durga Puja in Tripura and was so popular it had to had to be extended
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