Durga Puja is a a part of the Navaratri festival held in many places of India. It is most religiously celebrated in North India, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. Out of the the nine days of ...

The Indian city of Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta) has a long tradition of lavishly celebrating the Durga Puja, an annual Hindu festival that reveres the goddess Durga. It is the biggest and ...

Durga Puja is a festival for the celebration of the victory of Lord Rama over Ravana in the city of Varanasi. The city is ...

A community pandal inspired by the Ayodhya Ram Janmabhoomi Temple set up for the upcoming Durga Puja festival in Ranchi. Irish artists have created a cane statue of Celtic goddess Danu for the ...

The duo sat together at the pandal, enjoying the festive atmosphere. The Hindu festival of Durga Puja, also known as Durgotsava or Sharodotsava, is a yearly celebration that honours the Hindu ...

It also honours the strength of the divine feminine, as Goddess Durga stands for tenacity when subjected to moral injustice. As the festival continues, it marks the beginning of the celebratory ...

Bhopal: Though the Durga festival just got over with the immersion of the Goddess, several pandals are yet to be removed from various roads and roadsides and are proving to be a hindrance in the ...

She visits the Kamakhya Temple to learn about the Durga Puja. She discovers what the festival means to the ... Bettany Hughes outlines the background to the debate on whether women can be priests ...

The deity would be decorated as Sri Lalita Tripura Sundari Devi and Sri Durga Devi on the seventh and eighth days of the festival respectively. On the final day, the Goddess would be decorated as ...