The Queen of All Festivals is Durga Puja

India is a place where there is celebrations. Being a common nation, there is no deficiency of things to celebrate in this place that is known for marvels. From Christmas to Eid ul Zoha, Independence Day to the Cricket World Cup, there is not really anything that Indians don't care for celebrating. Basically point us towards an event and we are totally supportive of it. Be that as it may, covered up among this not insignificant rundown of festivities is a jewel as Durga Puja, something celebrated in its full greatness in the Bengali people group.

All in all, what precisely IS the Durga Puja?

All things considered, for clearness, Puja alludes to a religious celebration. Notwithstanding, for us Bengalis, Durga Puja ( দূর্গা পূজার শুভেচ্ছা ) is to a lesser degree a 'Puja' and a greater amount of the epitome of the soul of happiness. What precisely does that mean? All things considered, let us return a couple millenniums to respond to that question.

The custom of conjuring the goddess Durga (or the mother, known as 'Mama') is first considered to have been finished by Lord Ram before he went forward to fight Ravana, as archived in the epic Ramayana. Be that as it may, the convention lay lethargic till about the late 1500s, when the proprietors in Bengal took it up. It was at long last given its last structure in the eighteenth century as Baroyaari (or 12 companions') puja, a term which at long last came to allude to network supported Durga Pujas held in Kolkata.

Basically, all pieces of India praises this period, yet as Navratri. It comprises of 9 days of fasting, which finishes with Dussehra, multi day where a representation of Ravana is singed as an approach to demonstrate that wrongs are constantly advocated by great as Lord Ram had supported above Ravana.

In Bengal

In Bengal, notwithstanding, the significance of these 10 days are very unique.

My most punctual recollections of Durga Puja are that of awakening in the night to tune in to Mahalaya on the radio. It is a program that has been airing on the principal day of the Bengali month Ashwin for over 7 decades and 4 ages of Bengalis, constraining them to get up at 4 am, something despite everything I do religiously consistently on that specific day. In spite of the fact that the enchantment of the fragrance, the half awoken self and realizing Ma is coming has to some degree decreased with the years, the possibility of something so altogether ground-breaking that it makes an entire network anticipate despite everything it holds a lot of appeal regardless.

Mama

We treat Ma Durga as something more than simply the goddess. While the facts confirm that she exemplifies the crude power (or Shakti) that conquered fiendishness by killing the shrewd evil presence Mahisasur (henceforth the term Mahisasur-mardini), she is a whole lot something other than that. The ten days that start with Mahalaya mean her yearly visit to her fatherly home in Bengal with 4 of her kids. Thusly Ma is, simultaneously, a mother, a spouse, a goddess, and in particular, an individual from our family. We spoil her, we regard her, we cherish her and we love her. She is something other than an eternality.

To us Bengalis, she exemplifies our most genuine nature. Regardless of where a Bengali may be, come Durga Puja, he/she feels an association with his/her family.

THIS is celebrating Pujo (a casual term for Durga Puja).

In all honesty, it can't be contrasted with whatever else on the planet. Be that as it may, recall the fellowship one gets when visiting the family, or the glow during Christmas, or the inclination you get when you visit your family following a year away? That is the thing that Pujo intends to a Bengali. It is more than praising a religious celebration. The possibility of Pujo is uniting everybody. What's more, what preferable path can there be over a mother encouraging all that? We eat, we cry, we talk, be glad and praise something that is essentially inconceivable anyplace else on the planet. It doesn't make a difference what you religion is. Regardless of whether a Muslim, a Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Jain or anything in the middle of (counting agnostics), in the event that you are a Bengali on a fundamental level, Durga Puja is for you. From visiting the a huge number of temporary platform (or pandals) for lifting Ma Durga to having some tea in the night (under a tree in the neighborhood shop since it appears to definitely rain during Puja evenings nowadays, particularly on the off chance that you are out at 2 am) to moving during the icon drenching function (called Bhashan), Durga Puja is something that you need to involvement with least once in your life.

Goodness, and did I notice tasty luchi and khichudi as lunch during Ashtami and the dazzling women who effortlessness the pandals? Pujo is justified, despite all the trouble... trust you me.

Also, everything Ends

Also, once Pujo is done, while we are on the whole miserable, we petition God for Ma to return securely to her brilliant dwelling place the Himalayas. In this way starts the hang tight for the following Puja. One more year to spend before our dear mother returns. Since Pujo never closes, it basically gets moved by one more year. All things considered, Ma resembles the mother who needs you to be glad notwithstanding when she is no more.