The Durga Puja festival marks the triumph of good over evil. It commemorates the victory of goddess Durga over the evil demon, Mahishasura.
Durga Puja is a five day festival honouring the Goddess Durga, considered as one of the biggest festival in among Bengalis residing in West Bengal. Durga Puja is not only celebrated in West Bengal but also widely celebrated in Bangladesh and places where Bengali people reside.
Normally Durga Puja held in October every year and it is Kolkata’s most important festival. It is an occasion for glamorous celebrations. People of all works of life participate in the celebration of the Durga Puja festival. The best part of Durga Puja in West Bengal is Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian and people of all religion participate in this celebration.
Durga Puja is one of the most important festivals in India. Durga Puja is more than a festival. It is a celebration of life, culture, popular customs and traditions. It is a time of reunion and rejuvenation to love, to share and to care. Nostalgia, memories, food and Durga Puja festivities are inseparable. Wearing a new dress to the Pujobari, pandal-hopping like there is no tomorrow, and not even complaining about the shoe bite from which one’s feet are painfully aching now.
Raja Kangshanarayan of Taherpur or Bhabananda Mazumdar of Nadia organized the first Sharadiya or Autumn Durga Puja in Bengal in 1606 and from then onwards it spread in all parts of Bengal and led people from different parts connect with each other to celebrate this festival in a grand way.
Durga Puja is a reminder where happiness finds its way home every year. Every woman looks stunning on Dashami after a vermillion bath. If you touch the feet of elders on Bijoya, you get a plateful of mishti, narkel nadu, tok-jhal dalmut and ghugni.
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