Over the last two years, the photographer Jitendra Jerry joined thousands of others in the village of Koovagam in Tamil Nadu, southern India, to celebrate the annual Koovagam Festival. Taking place across 18 days under the sweltering April sun, the festival commemorates the myth of Aravan. Appearing in the Mahabharata, an ancient Hindu epic, the story recounts how Aravan agrees to sacrifice himself to the goddesshellip;read more raquo;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;View Gallery (16 images)nbsp;