Gandhinagar : Durga Puja is one of the biggest festivals celebrated across the country. This festival is a celebration of Goddess Durga’s victory over defeating the demon, Mahishasura. It is usually a 10-day long festival but the last five days are considered to be the most significant ones. Not only Goddess Durga but, the Goddess Saraswathi, Goddess Lakshmi, Lord Ganesha, and Lord Karthikey are also worshipped in the festival. Such festival is particularly celebrated in Bengal, Assam, and other eastern Indian states. It begins on the same day as Navratri, a nine-night festival in many northern and western states that more broadly celebrates the divine feminine (shakti). And to keep that culture alive Bengali Community of Mota Chiloda, Gandhinagar, celebrated Durga Puja 2023 with great zeal and enthusiasm.
The members of the community celebrated the welcoming of Durga maa accompanied by Lakshmi, Ganesh, Kartikeya and Saraswati on 19 October 2023 and celebrated Maha Shasthi, Maha Saptami, Maha Asthami and Maha Navami with lots of holy rituals, prasad as well as blessings from Maa Durga. The festival ended on the tenth day (Vijaya Dashami), when devotees embarked on a procession carrying the worshipped sculpture-idols to a nearby water body, and immersed them, symbolic of her return to the divine cosmos and her marital home with Shiva in Kailash. The Bengali community widely spreads the message of “Winning of Good over Evil”