Durga Puja is quite an important festival for Hindu Bengalis and is a time for festivity, with numerous puja pandals, springing up across the nation and even abroad, to celebrate this festival.
This year I decided to stick to the local durga puja pandal in my area, which is organized every year by Matrimandir Puja Committee (Mayapuri). Although not as grand or crowded as few other Dugra Puja Pandals in the city, it was nice and peaceful, just the way I wanted it.
Here are a few photographs I clicked at the pandal, when I visited it on Mahashtami.
Maa Durga
Maa Saraswati
All the deities (click to enlarge)
Since it was Mahashtami, girls from our area also performed the Dhunuchi Naach. Here are couple of videos I shot of Dhunuchi Dance:
Overall a fun filled religious evening.
One Response
Hi,
I am Yogesh Goel, one from the Amar Durga Puja team. I am here to invite you to participate in the most unique initiative ever on the net on Ma Durga. We have a website AmarDurgaPuja.com and its totally user driven website. We want to bring Ma Durga to everyone’s home. Even to people who can’t be here during pujas. We want to make everyone feel at home and thats why this website.
Amar Durga Puja (ADP) is an attempt by FOURDY Group to take Durga Puja to the world by sharing information and photos to help everyone in experiencing the thrill of Durga Puja. To make this happen, we started http://www.amardurgapuja.com in 2009 as a photography competition which received an overwhelming response from the user of various countries like India, Bangladesh, United States, Australia, United Kingdom and many more who showed their love for the festival by submitting 1,000+ photographs within a span of 6 days – making it the largest Durga Puja gallery online. Later, this year we were also recognized by Spanish Magazine – Global Voices (www.globalvoices.org).
This is a pictorial and video website where users can submit their entire collection and make it seen to the world and also share them. we want to make it a hub which everyone can cherish for life.
Do visit and make urself a part of this greatest initiative ever.
our website address is-
http://www.amardurgapuja.com/
And our facebook page address is-
http://www.facebook.com/amardurgapuja
Hope to see u participating & contributing soon. Do not forget to tell about this to your friends too.
Take Care,
Be well,
Yogesh Goel
For,
Amar Durga Puja team
FOURDY Group