Today is the eighth day of Navratri. It is also known as Maha Ashtami or Durga Ashtami. Today, the eighth avatar of power Mother Mahagauri is worshipped. The Goddess is called Mahagauri due to her fair color.
While Navratri is here, and rest of the 'end of the year festivities' like Dussehra, Diwali and Christmas are round the corner, citizens have been advised to avoid public gatherings, maintain social etiquettes and restrict celebrations to their homes
A Durga puja committee in Kolkata has decided to install a life-size statue of the bollywood actor Sonu Sood in its pandal to honour his service to the labourers during the pandemic.
On Durga Saptami of the nine-day long Navratri festival, one should offer jaggery or dishes made of jaggery to please the Goddess. By doing so, Maa Kaalratri removes poverty and brings happiness into everyone's life.
With the COVID-19 outbreak, Durga Puja associations across the country have decided to keep celebrations low key. Many pandal organisers will live stream the event for devotees through Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram.
Its Durga Puja time! Its the most awaited period of the year for many of us. While the celebrations are low-key this year due to COVID19, have a look at the pandals celebrating the festival this year.
If Durga Puja is a time for prayers and reverence, it's no less a time for celebration - for catching all the action in the city, and of course enjoying delicious food. During this time, one can spot the most beautiful idols of the Goddess and also enjoy endless rounds of shopping.
In the wake of the increasing COVID-19 cases, various Durga Puja pandal committees have made arrangements for virtual 'darshan' this time, while barring the physical entry of visitors. Not just the pandals, even 'Pushpanjali' pooja has gone online this year.
Everyone is preferring to stay inside their homes and celebrate Navratri 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, here we are with a few throwback pics of Bollywood divas who enjoyed the festival in previous years.
In what would disappoint the people of Bengal, the Calcutta High Court on Monday ordered that all Durga Puja pandals across the state be declared no-entry zones to prevent the spread of COVID-19. A division bench of the high court comprising Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Arijit Banerjee, hearing a public interest litigation, said that no visitors will be allowed to enter the pandals.
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