India
India
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Facts About Maha Shivratri
It is a day when Lord Shiva is being worshiped.
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Durga Puja, The Biggest Festival of West Bengal
Festivals are colourful, and when it is an Indian festival, it is like Indian summer. Durga Puja is the biggest festival of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a five-day festival where people wear new gorgeous clothes and enjoy the good food, art and tradition.
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Kojagari Lakshmi Puja
The festival season has started in India and the entire month will be celebrated with different kinds of rituals and pujas in different parts of the country. Each and every festival has its own uniqueness and a special identity. Kojagari Lakshmi Puja is also among them.
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Durga Puja Now and Then
Durga Puja means a grand festival in West Bengal. Every single person in this state celebrates the ultimate. It is a time when families and friends get together and enjoy the five days of the festival.
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Potters and Durga Puja
Durga Puja is one of the big festivals in India. Every year, millions of travellers visit West Bengal to see its colour and beauty.
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Inside the Festival of Chhath Puja
It is called Chhath because it is celebrated on the sixth day of the month of Kartika, which falls typically in the month of October or November. It is also celebrated during the summer (March-April), some days after Holi, known as Chaiti Chhath.
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Makar Sankranti, A Hindu Festival
The first day of Sun’s transit into the Capricorn ( Makar ) calls as Makar Sankranti. This is a Hindu festival, celebrates in the month of January. This is to mention that this festival has marked as one of the ancient festivals in India.
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Things to know About Chariot Festival in India
Every festival brings happiness and joy. Today I am writing about such a festival where you can find devotion, passion, happiness, and joy. This is all about the Chariot festival in east India. This festival is famous as Rathayatra or Rathajatra in Orissa, Jharkhand and West Bengal. It attracts over a million Hindu devotees to participate in the rituals. The festival all about: This is all about a Chariot journey of Lord Jagannath (the avatar of Vishnu), Balabhadra (brother of Lord Jagannath) and Subhadra (sister of Lord Jagannath) with a large public procession. Devotees decorate the wooden chariot with flowers a day prior to the journey. On the day of…
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Unknown Rabha Tribe
We all are quite selfish sometimes. We only want to upgrade ourselves and do not care about the forgotten cultures of our society. Today, I am introducing an indigenous community, which is unknown to many of us. This is all about Rabha or Rava. You can find them in the Indian state of Assam, Meghalaya and northern part of West Bengal. I am basically from Dooars ( a place in northern West Bengal, surrounded by forests and tea gardens). In my 15 years in Dooars, I met people from different cultures and Rabha was one of them. Culture and Religion: Rabhas are actually Indo-Mongoloid group of people. They have different…
