Chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government Sonia Gandhi (C) watches the effigies with her grandchildren, during the Hindu festival of Dussehra in New Delhi, 21 October 2007. Dussehra ,which is celebrated at the end of the Navratri (nine nights) festival, symbolises the victory of good over evil in Hindu mythology. On the night of Dussehra fire-cracker stuffed effigies of Ravana are set fire in open open ground across the country. AFP PHOTO/ Prakash SINGH