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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/37/L476E.St.138.jpeg|416A young Nepalese Hindu devotee stands with burning oil lamps on his body as part of rituals to celebrate the tenth and final day of Dashain festival at Bhaktapur, also known as the city of devotees, on the outskirts of Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by Hindu goddess Durga, marking the victory of good over evil. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/37/1jZ7sI.St.138.jpeg|416A Nepalese Hindu boy in traditional attire sits with others at a Hindu temple on the tenth and final day of Dashain festival at Bhaktapur, also known as the city of devotees, on the outskirts of Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by Hindu goddess Durga, marking the victory of good over evil. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/37/x2GCw.St.138.jpeg|416Hindu women make offerings before idols of Hindu goddess Durga during Durga Puja festivities in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by lion-riding, ten armed goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/37/HNs2T.St.138.jpeg|416Head Armourer of the paramilitary Home Guards, Kirtikumar Avasthi performs rituals on weapons at their headquarters on Vijayadashmi, or Dussehra festival, in Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Dussehra commemorates the triumph of Lord Rama over the demon king Ravana, marking the victory of good over evil. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/36/l3x6t.St.138.jpeg|401A Hindu devotee offers prayers in the polluted waters of the River Yamuna during the Dussehra festival in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Dussehra commemorates the triumph of Lord Rama over the demon king Ravana, marking the victory of good over evil. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/36/1sd6Ml.St.138.jpeg|418An effigy of demon king Ravana goes up in flames marking the end of the Dussehra festival in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Dussehra commemorates the triumph of Lord Rama over the demon king Ravana, marking the victory of good over evil. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/36/1jZqFg.St.138.jpeg|408Hindu devotees sit on the top of a truck as they leave after the immersion of idols of Hindu goddess Durga during Durga Puja festivities in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by lion-riding, ten armed goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/35/1eicz5.St.138.jpeg|426Hindu women apply vermillion powder on each other during Durga Puja festivities in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by lion-riding, ten armed goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/35/1loctl.St.138.jpeg|407Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, seated left, and Congress party President Sonia Gandhi watch the burning of an effigy of demon King Ravana during Dussehra celebrations in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Dussehra festival commemorates the victory of Hindu Lord Rama over Ravana, an evil ruler who had abducted Rama's wife, Sita Devi. The burning of effigies of Ravana, signifying the victory of good over evil, brings the festivities to a close. (AP Photo/ Mustafa Quraishi)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/35/Zg4YH.St.138.jpeg|406An idol of Hindu goddess Durga stands before immersion into the River Yamuna during Durga Puja festivities in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by lion-riding, ten armed goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/34/1hIXUD.St.138.jpeg|391A young Hindu devotee holds on to an idol of Hindu goddess Durga being carried on a truck for immersion into the River Yamuna during Durga Puja festivities in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by lion-riding, ten armed goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/34/167rjl.St.138.jpeg|416A Hindu woman who has vermillion powder on her face talks on her mobile phone during Durga Puja festivities in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by lion-riding, ten armed goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/34/1gQsXP.St.138.jpeg|401Bangladeshi Hindu devotees apply vermillion on each other's face during Durga Puja festivities, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by lion-riding, ten-armed goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil. (AP Photo/ A.M. Ahad)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/33/1fVvat.St.138.jpeg|420Hindu women dance while apply vermillion powder on each other during Durga Puja festivities in Hyderabadi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by lion-riding, ten armed goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/33/1btwhu.St.138.jpeg|433Pandit Rajin Balgobind prepares the altar of Hindu goddesses and deities with a large flower prior to celebration of the eighth night of the Nine Nights of Navratri at the Prem Bhakti Mandir Hindu temple in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/33/aiBtL.St.138.jpeg|387Naresh Ram Janam, left, watches as Dato Bhodananth dances to tabla music and singing during a celebration of the eighth night of the Nine Nights of Navratri Hindu festival at the Prem Bhakti Mandir Hindu temple in the Jamaica, Queens, neighborhood of New York, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/32/1pam6s.St.138.jpeg|399Hindu devotees hold plates of flowers and candles in order to receive the blessings of five Hindu goddesses as they pray before an altar strewn with rose petals on the eighth night of Navratri during the Nine Nights Festival at the Prem Bhakti Mandir Hindu temple in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/32/kJioV.St.138.jpeg|525STAND ALONE PHOTOS - Dancers Davina Singh and Julia Subrian of the Natraj Center for the Performing Arts, an Indian cultural organization, are adorned in traditional garb following a performance for followers of Pandit Rajin Balgbind on the eighth night of the Nine Nights of Navratri at the Prem Bhakti Mandir Hindu temple in the Jamaica, Queens, neighborhood of New York, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/31/1j3FQ3.St.138.jpeg|389STAND ALONE PHOTOS -A man bows before the rose-petal strewn altar adorned with Hindu deities on the eighth night of the Nine Nights of Navratri HIndu festival at the Prem Bhakti Mandir Hindu temple in the Jamaica, Queens, neighborhood of New York, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/31/YsKxc.St.138.jpeg|430STAND ALONE PHOTOS - HIndu devotees offer Aartri, a small plate of flowers and a candle, symbolizing light, in front of the altar of Hindu deities on the eighth night of Navrati, part of the Nine Nights festival at the Prem Bhakti Mandir Hindu temple in the Jamaica, Queens, neighborhood, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/31/176Bfa.St.138.jpeg|409Pandit Rajin Balgobind speaks to followers from the flower-decorated altar on the eighth night of the Nine Nights of Navratri festival at the Prem Bhakti Mandir Hindu temple in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Most of Balgobind's followers, like him, are of Indo-Caribbean background, and hail from the Caribbean nation of Guyana, located on the north coast of Souh America. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/30/IPUv4.St.138.jpeg|420Indian Hindu devotees wipe vermilion on each other in front of a large idol of Hindu goddess Durga as they prepare to immerse it in the River Yamuna during Durga Puja festivities in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by lion-riding, ten armed goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/30/KIrvI.St.138.jpeg|415DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 24: Hindu idols are seen immersed in the Yamuna river on the last day of the Durga Puja festival on October 24, 2012 in Delhi, India. The festival celebrates the worship of the Hindu Goddess Durga, who in Hindu Mythology is celebrated as the Goddess of power and the victor of good over evil. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/30/JiDm4.St.138.jpeg|415DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 24: Hindu devotees look from a truck as they arrive transporting an idol of Goddess Durga to be immersed into the Yamuna river on the last day of the Durga Puja festival on October 24, 2012 in Delhi, India. The festival celebrates the worship of the Hindu Goddess Durga, who in Hindu Mythology is celebrated as the Goddess of power and the victor of good over evil. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/30/V2Shi.St.138.jpeg|415DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 24: A crane lifts idols as Hindu devotees wait to immerse an idol of Goddess Durga into the Yamuna river on the last day of the Durga Puja festival on October 24, 2012 in Delhi, India. The festival celebrates the worship of the Hindu Goddess Durga, who in Hindu Mythology is celebrated as the Goddess of power and the victor of good over evil. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/30/6tQJF.St.138.jpeg|415DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 24: A rag picker sorts through refuse left over from Hindu devotees immersing an idols of Goddess Durga into the Yamuna river on the last day of the Durga Puja festival on October 24, 2012 in Delhi, India. The festival celebrates the worship of the Hindu Goddess Durga, who in Hindu Mythology is celebrated as the Goddess of power and the victor of good over evil. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/29/atAau.St.138.jpeg|416DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 24: Hindu devotees walk along the banks of the Yamuna river as others immerse an idol of Goddess Durga into the river on the last day of the Durga Puja festival on October 24, 2012 in Delhi, India. The festival celebrates the worship of the Hindu Goddess Durga, who in Hindu Mythology is celebrated as the Goddess of power and the victor of good over evil. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/29/9QZLf.St.138.jpeg|415DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 24: Hindu devotees celebrate prior to immersing an idol of Goddess Durga into the Yamuna river on the last day of the Durga Puja festival on October 24, 2012 in Delhi, India. The festival celebrates the worship of the Hindu Goddess Durga, who in Hindu Mythology is celebrated as the Goddess of power and the victor of good over evil. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/29/Exb1C.St.138.jpeg|415DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 24: Hindu devotee raises an offering to an idol of Goddess Durga prior to immersing it into the Yamuna river on the last day of the Durga Puja festival on October 24, 2012 in Delhi, India. The festival celebrates the worship of the Hindu Goddess Durga, who in Hindu Mythology is celebrated as the Goddess of power and the victor of good over evil. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/29/5fC6h.St.138.jpeg|415DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 24: Hindu devotees look on as a crane lifts an idol of Goddess Durga prior to it being carried to be immersed into the Yamuna river on the last day of the Durga Puja festival on October 24, 2012 in Delhi, India. The festival celebrates the worship of the Hindu Goddess Durga, who in Hindu Mythology is celebrated as the Goddess of power and the victor of good over evil. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/29/SIEtr.St.138.jpeg|415DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 24: A man carries a girl on his shoulders as Hindu devotees gather to immerse idols of Goddess Durga into the Yamuna river on the last day of the Durga Puja festival on October 24, 2012 in Delhi, India. The festival celebrates the worship of the Hindu Goddess Durga, who in Hindu Mythology is celebrated as the Goddess of power and the victor of good over evil. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/29/WgTbd.St.138.jpeg|415DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 24: Hindu devotees immerse an idol of Goddess Durga into the Yamuna river on the last day of the Durga Puja festival on October 24, 2012 in Delhi, India. The festival celebrates the worship of the Hindu Goddess Durga, who in Hindu Mythology is celebrated as the Goddess of power and the victor of good over evil. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/28/kjawn.St.138.jpeg|525An Indian Hindu woman applies vermilion on an idol of Hindu goddess Durga during Durga Puja festivities in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012.The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by lion-riding, ten-armed goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil.(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/28/14AsCz.St.138.jpeg|525An effigy of demon king Ravana goes up in flames marking the end of Dussehra festival in Jammu, India, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Dussehra commemorates the triumph of Lord Rama over the demon king Ravana, marking the victory of good over evil. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/28/w2pio.St.138.jpeg|416Bangladeshi Hindu devotees dance during Durga Puja festivities, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by lion-riding, ten-armed goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil. (AP Photo/ A.M. Ahad)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/27/covPi.St.138.jpeg|416DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 24: Hindu devotees pull themselves from the Yamuna river after having immersed an idol of Goddess Durga into the Yamuna river on the last day of the Durga Puja festival on October 24, 2012 in Delhi, India. The festival celebrates the worship of the Hindu Goddess Durga, who in Hindu Mythology is celebrated as the Goddess of power and the victor of good over evil. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/26/1hU4pJ.St.138.jpeg|415DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 24: Hindu devotees immerse an idol of Goddess Durga into the Yamuna river on the last day of the Durga Puja festival on October 24, 2012 in Delhi, India. The festival celebrates the worship of the Hindu Goddess Durga, who in Hindu Mythology is celebrated as the Goddess of power and the victor of good over evil. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/26/OMAzY.St.138.jpeg|416DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 24: Hindu devotees carry an idol of Goddess Durga towards the Yamuna river on the last day of the Durga Puja festival on October 24, 2012 in Delhi, India. The festival celebrates the worship of the Hindu Goddess Durga, who in Hindu Mythology is celebrated as the Goddess of power and the victor of good over evil. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/26/16hiYR.St.138.jpeg|415DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 24: Hindu devotees immerse an idol of Goddess Durga into the Yamuna river on the last day of the Durga Puja festival on October 24, 2012 in Delhi, India. The festival celebrates the worship of the Hindu Goddess Durga, who in Hindu Mythology is celebrated as the Goddess of power and the victor of good over evil. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/25/6q9so.St.138.jpeg|415DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 24: Hindu devotees carry an idol of Goddess Durga to be immersed into the Yamuna river on the last day of the Durga Puja festival on October 24, 2012 in Delhi, India. The festival celebrates the worship of the Hindu Goddess Durga, who in Hindu Mythology is celebrated as the Goddess of power and the victor of good over evil. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/25/1nhPjx.St.138.jpeg|525DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 24: A crane lifts idols as Hindu devotees wait to immerse an idol of Goddess Durga into the Yamuna river on the last day of the Durga Puja festival on October 24, 2012 in Delhi, India. The festival celebrates the worship of the Hindu Goddess Durga, who in Hindu Mythology is celebrated as the Goddess of power and the victor of good over evil. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/25/ozmfS.St.138.jpeg|525Pandit Rajin Balgobind, left, gives flowers to followers, who brought offerings to place on the altar of Hindu goddesses on the eighth night of the Nine Nights of Navratri Hindu festival observed at the Prem Bhakti Mandir Hindu temple in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/25/1jkJL6.St.138.jpeg|467A woman places a pan leaf with incense into a flaming urn, part of a ritual to appease Hindu deities during the eighth night of the Nine Nights of Navratri Hindu religious festival at the Prem Bhakti Mandir Hindu temple in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/24/jef7G.St.138.jpeg|525An apple and flowers are offered to the Hindu deity Ganesh, who is considered the master of intellect and wisdom, during observance of the eighth night of Navratri at the Prem Bhakti Mandir Hindu temple in the Jamaica, Queens, neighborhood, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/24/UMpFK.St.138.jpeg|457Hindu devotees hold plates of candles and flowers as they recieve blessings at the altar on the eighth night of the Nine Nights of Navratri at the Prem Bhakti Mandir Hindu temple in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/24/FDqBN.St.138.jpeg|378The Prem Bhakti Mandir Hindu temple is filled wall-to-wall during observance of the eighth night of the Nine Nights of Navratri, a Hindu festival, in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Most of the devotees are followers of Pandit Rajin Balgobind, and are of Guyanese descent, but their families originated in India. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/24/R6OWx.St.138.jpeg|509A young Hindu girl dressed in festive clothing watches rituals at the altar as her mother holds her hand during a celebration of the eighth night of the Nine Nights of Navrati Hindu festival at the Prem Bhakti Mandir temple in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/23/15Mg4L.St.138.jpeg|491Julia Subrian and Davina Singh of the Natraj Center for the Performing Arts, an Indian cultural arts organization, perform Indian dances for the Hindu congregation at the Prem Bhakti Mandir temple on the eighth night of Navratri, a Hindu holiday lasting nine nights, in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2012/10/24/21/23/5a65y.St.138.jpeg|424Julia Subrian and Davina Singh of the Natraj Center for the Performing Arts, an Indian cultural arts organization, perform Indian dances for the Hindu congregation at the Prem Bhakti Mandir temple on the eighth night of Navratri, a Hindu holiday lasting nine nights, in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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