Durga Puja is a a part of the Navaratri festival held in many places of India. It is most religiously celebrated in North ...

Every autumn, Bengal lights up in a dazzling spectacle of sound, color, and devotion. The clay idols of Goddess Durga, with ten hands holding weapons, riding a lion, and striking down the buffalo ...

(RNS) — Monday (Sept. 22) marks the start of Navaratri, a vibrant, nine-night Hindu festival dedicated to the Divine Feminine in all her forms. Hindus will dedicate rituals to the goddess Durga — the ...

Every year, long before the city streets of Kolkata come alive with the clatter of puja preparations, millions of Bengalis wake to a familiar 4am sound: "Ashwiner sharad praate…”, the recitation of ...