Durga Puja, India's Largest Religious Festival

Durga Puja, also called Durgotsava and Navaratri, is an annual Hindu festival in the Indian subcontinent that reveres the goddess Durga.It is particularly popular in West Bengal, Odisha, Assam and Tripura, and the diaspora from this region. The festival is observed in the Hindu calendar month of Ashvin, typically September or October of the Gregorian calendar. A multi-day festival that features elaborate temple and stage decorations (pandals), scripture recitation, performance arts, revelry and processions, Durga Puja is particularly observed by Hindus in eastern and northeastern states of India, in Bangladesh and in Nepal where it is called Dashain. It is a major festival in the Shaktism tradition of Hinduism across India and Shakta Hindu diaspora.

Durga Puja celebration denotes the skirmish of goddess Durga with the shape-moving, misleading and intense wild ox evil presence Mahishasura, and her rising successful. Accordingly, the celebration encapsulates the triumph of Good finished Evil, yet it likewise is partially a gather celebration that denotes the goddess as the nurturing power behind all of life and creation.The Durga Puja celebration dates correspond with Vijayadashami (Dussehra) saw by different customs of Hinduism, where the Ram Lila is sanctioned, triumph of Rama is stamped and models of devil Ravana are singed.

The celebration is an old convention of Hinduism, however it is indistinct how and in which century the celebration started. Surviving original copies from the fourteenth century give rules to Durga puja, while authentic records propose eminence and well off families were supporting real Durga Puja open celebrations since in any event the sixteenth century. The noticeable quality of Durga Puja expanded amid the British Raj in its territories of Bengal and Assam.Durga Puja has been a ten-day celebration, of which the last five are ordinarily uncommon and a yearly occasion in locales, for example, West Bengal and Tripura where it is especially popular.In the contemporary time, the significance of Durga Puja is as much as a social celebration as a religious one wherever it is watched.