The Holy Festival Durga Puja And Its Celebration

      The holy festival Durga Puja is also known as Dorgothsab is celebrated with full of joy and enthusiasm in whole India and and is specially famous in North and East India. It is the main festival of Bengali's in West Bengal. Except West Bengal, in Delhi, Maharastra, Tripura, Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa, Chennai and also at other places it celebrates fully. It Is a 5 days festival, where Ma Durga, the goddess of power, also known as Sakti is worshiped. The festival starts from the day Maha Sasthi, Then serially comes the days Maha Saptami, Maha Astami, Maha Nabami and finally Maha dasami, the last day of this festival ends with  immersion of Ma Durga. The date of Duyrga puja generally decided according to the bengali calander which generally held between the months September and October.






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        There is a mythology behind this worship as it is said that at the time of rescuing Sita from the demon king ravana, King Ram worshiped  ma Durga as to get her blessing to get win against Ravana in the war. This is also known as 'Akalbodhan'. Another one is that Ma Durga waas been permitted to meet with her mother only nine days in a year and so her return to her mother for nine days is celebrated by worshiping as Durga Puja.

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       Some households also organize this puja at home and it becomes a family get together and for enjoyment, stage performance, such as dancing, drama, Jatra- all these use to be happened. They cooked various dishes and also maintain carefully all the rituals that to do for this puja. They generally make or buy ek chala idol for worshiping. Beside of it, apart from this traditional way, baroari puja that is where a puja use to be organized by people of that area by collecting money which known as chanda, donetion. Here Mandaps (pandel) are made by following various themes. Some make pandels as like Taj Mahal, by copying  various palaces belongs to Rajasthan, Gujrat etc. Some also make their pandels on the basis of such kkinds of themes and the idol of Ma Durga also is made on the basis of that theme. In Kolkata Kumartuli is famous for making idols. So at this time and also from the prior to this puja the potters have a busy schedule in making these idols.






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       The whole kolkata and also the other areas of West Bengal are decorated with various types of lights and Mandaps. People use to wear new dresses on this occasion, and it is a main characterristic of Kolkata puja that a huge people gather on these five days to see the pratimas (idols), pandels, lightnings etc. To maintain the huge crowd police and volunteer camps organized by many institution are enforced by government and private organizations. People enjoy to see all these over the night and special trains and transport systems are also use to be available on these days. People generally visits pandels by walking for hours and hours. Restaurants specially prepares bengai dishes and also prepares their own special items, they also use to open it over the night and people also enjoy eating food at those places. They play songs, arrange stage programmes, quiz, contests etc and tv channels also cover news from different places and they alos organize so many contest with attractive prizes. So many travel agencies oraganize citty tours for the individuals to visit famous pandels and idol of Ma Durga with reasonable price. Lastly On Maha Dasami the festival ends with immersion of Ma Durga which is called 'Visharjan' and people meet together to wish Happy Bijaya Dasami with sweets either by going to their relatives' home or through telephone and internet.






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       Generally this festival brings joy and hapiness alsong with it and people also forget all their works, their busy life and tiredness and come forward to enjoy. People get freshness from their busy and boring schedule and get relaxed and this festival also brings a good business for the businessmen. On these days all individuals come out to enjoy whether they are Hindu or not but they come forward to make a happy and joyous environment.







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Eid- Ul- Fitr - The Holy Religious Festival Of Islam

Eid - The holy religious festival of Islam is celebrated by all the muslim people through out the world with great joy and enthusiasm. Eid is the small version of the Arabic word 'Eid- Ul -Fitr' where the word 'Eid' denotes the meaning festivity and 'Fitr' denotes the meaning Purify. So heer it signifies that it is the symbol of purification after one month long fasting in the month of Ramzan (Ramadan)and the beginning of Shawwal - the tenth month of Islammic calender.





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For muslims, Eid is a day of thanks giving. On this very, in the morning, before sunrise, people takes sweets as breakfast and after taking bath they wear new clothes. On Eid muslims generally give thanks to Allah in the way of distributing alms among the poor people and then they gather for a special congregational prayer hold in mosques or in big stadiums or any other open places. On this day people also give gifts to children and to their beloved one. Eid ul-Fitr is the first of two holidays in Islam. The second holiday is known as Eid- Ul- Fitr which is on 10th day of Thul Hijjah, the 12th month of Islamic calender, occures at the time of Hajj.





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After the prayer on this very peoples go to their relatives or closed ones house or make phone calls to the distant relatives and others to wish them. This activity continues for three days and this day counts as a holiday in many countries.





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Ganesh Chaturthi - The Divine Festival In India

Ganesh Chaturthi which is also known as 'Vinayaka Chaturthi' or 'Vinayaka Chavithi' is a holy and one of the main festival in India and for Hindus. Ganesha , son of Lord Shiva and Parvatti is worshiped in this occasion. This festival is held on the month Bhadra,( mid August- September) shukla chaturthi (fourth day of the waxing moon period) on his birthday. This festival lasts for 10 day and end on Anant Chaturdasi ( on the 14th day of the waxing moon.).





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In India, specially in Maharastra, Pune, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Orissa celebrates this festival with great joy and it is considered as their main festival. And outside India,  in Srilanka and Nepal it is widely celebrated.
      



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In India, Three or Fourth months before of Ganesh Chaturthi, clay models with various poses of Shri Ganesh are made and are decorated beautifully and it is usually vary 3/4th of an inch to 25 feet in size. People use to decorate thier houses with flower garland and artificial lights. They bring  shri Ganesh's statue in home to worship or mandapas ( pandals) are made in the locality by collecting money from individuals, clubs, communities etc and decorate pandals by flower garland or other accessories or by ancient or modern themes. The priest generally clad in red shawl dhoti and shawl and then invokes life by chanting mantras into the idol. This ritual is known as 'Pranapratishhtha'. After this another ritual begins which is known as 'Shhodashopachara' ( 16 ways of paying tribute). Then Lord Ganesha is worshiped with coconut, jagery, 21 modakas, 21 durva (trefoil), blades of grass and red flowers. A type of red ointment which is made by Kumkum and sandelpaste is applied on the statue.The priest chants Ganesh stotra from Narada Purana,  Ganapati Atharva Shirsha Upanishad and Vediv ymns from Rig Veda thorughout the ceremony. Beside of it cultural programes are organized and many people use to participate in it and enjoy fully.







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After 10 days of celebration, finally the statue is taken for immersion (visharjan). many people joined in the procession of immersion of Lord Ganesha on the street by dancing, singing, and people use to shout by saying "Ganapati Bappa Morya, Pudhachya Varsi Laukar ya" that means Lord Ganesha come on next year quickly. They generally immersed statue in the river or sea symbolizing a ritual see-off to Kailash by taking away misfortune of his devotees.






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Lord Ganesha is the lord of peace, prosperity and good fortune. He is worshiped in prior to any pray, before any kind of worship is started and before any auspicious work to start.





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