I Went to India's Most Bizarre Festival

We travel to southern India for the intense Dussehra festival, exploring villages where devotees fast for 41 days, dress as gods and goddesses, and prepare to enter trance states. We follow the celebrations to a crowded beach, where worshippers dance, carry fire, pierce their bodies, and receive blessings while honoring the goddess Kali. We witness the rituals continuing into the night and leave feeling transformed by the devotion and the festival's message of good overcoming evil.