Durga Puja
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Durga puja has become a social festival: President
India | Oct 20, 2015, 11:25 PM ISTMiriti (WB): President Pranab Mukherjee today said Durga Puja has become a social festival with universal participation."It is no more a religious festival, it becomes social festival resulting in universal participation from various cross sections
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Kolkata installs India's first transgender Durga idol
India | Oct 20, 2015, 01:16 PM ISTKolkata: Breaking all religious and social stereotyping, a Durga Puja pandal in Kolkata has installed a transgender Durga idol, first of its kind in India.Organised by Kolkata-based sexual rights initiative, The Pratyay Gender Trust, in
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'Biggest' Durga idol vies for supremacy in West Bengal
India | Oct 18, 2015, 09:37 PM ISTKolkata: A puja committee in South Kolkata claims to be putting up the tallest Durga idol in the world for which it had initiated a teaser advertisement months in advance."There have been idols of other
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Kolkata: Elaborate security arrangement to ensure trouble-free Puja
India | Oct 17, 2015, 11:24 AM ISTKolkata: With the city gearing up for five days of Durga Pujas from next week, Kolkata Police has put in place elaborate fullproof arrangements from Panchami to Dashami. Describing managing this year's Durga Puja as a
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Muslim MLA presents silk sarees to Goddess Kanaka Durga
National | Oct 15, 2015, 11:50 PM ISTVijayawada: In a gesture symbolising communal amity, a Muslim legislator presented silk sarees to Goddess Kanak Durga Mata at the Sri Durgamalleswara Swamivarla Devastanam here, a practise he has been following for the last ten
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Durga puja by Kolkata's transgender women to re-claim social space
India | Oct 02, 2015, 10:42 AM ISTKolkata: Transgender women here have come together this year to organise a special Durga puja in an "attempt to re-claim social space" in the face of "ostracism".Spurred by the discriminatory gaze they are subjected to
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Navratri Day 3: Mantra, puja, color and food
India | Oct 15, 2015, 10:04 AM ISTOn Day 3 of Navratri, Maa Chandraghanta is worshipped. She is the bestower of peace and serenity. She showers Supreme bliss and knowledge on her devotees.She is the third form of ‘Maa Durga' whom we
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With idol immersion, Durga Puja ends in Bengal
India | Oct 04, 2014, 11:13 PM ISTKolkata: The banks of the Ganga and other water bodies wore a festive look as people from all walks of life joined in colourful processions to immerse idols marking the end of Durga Puja -
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Author, artist, song writer - Mamata's different shades
National | Oct 04, 2014, 12:40 PM ISTKolkata: With deft brush strokes she drew the eye of the goddess, authored a new book and did the cover of a festival publication, while a musical album based on her poems was a big
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Kolkata puja organizers join the chorus for saving ecology
India | Oct 03, 2014, 08:52 AM ISTKolkata: Ecology is the dominant theme with the top notch puja organizers this time in the city, which is famed for turning the festival into a veritable art exposition.Organisers of Dumdum Park Sarbojonin, which has
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Devotees perform Kumari puja across Bengal
India | Oct 02, 2014, 01:04 PM ISTKolkata: Devotees converged at the Belur Math, the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission for Kumari Puja, the worship of a girl as the Durga Puja carnival reached its climax in West Bengal
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Dhakis face uncertain future
India | Oct 02, 2014, 11:26 AM ISTKolkata: ‘Dhakis' are integral to almost all festivities in Bengal but the art of playing the huge barrel-shaped membranophone instrument is dying a slow death.Most of the ‘dhakis' or men who play the ‘dhak' hail
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Durga puja is a social festival: President
India | Sep 30, 2014, 08:58 PM ISTKirnahar(WB): President Pranab Mukherjee today said Durga puja is not only a religious programme, it is also a social festival.“Durga puja is not only a religious programme, it is a social festival. On this occasion
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Durga pujas: Breaking new ground in celebrating tradition
India | Sep 28, 2014, 12:08 PM ISTNew Delhi: Innovation is quite the USP for Durga Pujas this year as organisers look to reinvent the celebration of a festival steeped in tradition and age-old lore with everything contemporary, ranging from eco-friendly pavilions
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UP pandals to have puja-with-a-message
India | Sep 25, 2014, 06:29 PM ISTLucknow: If not devotion, traditions sure have changed with time in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state and unarguably the seat of Hindu faith. As the nation prepares to usher in the festival of Durga
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Kolkata Puja pandals to revive nostalgia of age old devotional songs
India | Sep 25, 2014, 06:20 PM ISTKolkata: Breaking away from the trend of Bollywood numbers and rock hits playing during the festive season, enthusiasts here are trying to preserve age-old devotional songs reminiscent of occasions like Durga Puja by digitising century-old
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Sonagachi sex workers' kids to launch music album in Durga Puja
India | Sep 24, 2014, 09:04 PM ISTKolkata: Stigmatised but not afraid to hone and sport their talents, a music band led by children of Sonagachi sex workers is here to reach out to the masses this Durga Puja, courtesy their maiden
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VHP seeks Muslim cleric Maulana Mehdi Hasan arrest for comments on Navratri
India | Sep 22, 2014, 08:48 AM ISTAhmedabad: Vishwa Hindu Parishad yesterday took strong objection to what it termed as “provocative” remarks on Navratri festival by Maulana Mehdi Hasan, saying it is a deliberate attempt to “malign” Hinduism and demanded his arrest.VHP
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Sonagachi sex workers denied bigger Durga puja celebration
India | Sep 15, 2014, 05:48 PM ISTKolkata: Sex workers in West Bengal's Sonagachi area, said to be the largest red light area in Asia, are a disappointed lot on being denied permission to scale up their Durga puja festivities this year,
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Special Metro services on Durga Puja days
India | Sep 09, 2014, 05:42 PM ISTKolkata: Metro Railway Kolkata has arranged special Metro services this year during Durga Puja days with a total of 544 services on the festive days from October one for the convenience of revellers through day