Charak Puja

At midnight of Songkranti, the worshippers gather to worship Shiva and Ma Durga for success.

[7] Though the aristocracy and frequency of the festival is being deemed now, it is still being performed regularly by people with an uncommon amount of devotion.

The Most popular festival "Charak Puja" is found at places like Dholar Haat, Akcha, Gorea, Khochabari(Singia), Hothath para at Thakurgaon Sadar, same places of Tripura Dhalai District like Kamalpur and Kulai.

In some villages, jatras in honour of local deities in Maharashtra & Andhra Pradesh are performed.

Bagad is a similar concept to Charak Puja, Gajan (festival) or Indian parallel of Mexican Danza de los Voladores.

Charak Puja in an East India Company era painting, at the Indian Museum .
Illustration of Charak Puja from Twenty-four plates illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal (1832) by Sophie Charlotte Belnos (1795–1865)
Sirimanu festival at Vizianagram, Andhra Pradesh