5-day Durga Puja begins Sunday

Five-day Sharadiya Durgotsob, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community in Bangladesh, will begin on Sunday, September 27. Preparations are afoot for the annual festival at temples and makeshift puja mandaps across the country. On Sunday last, the Hindu community members celebrated Mahalaya inviting Goddess Durga to her paternal home earth from Kailash (heaven) along with her offspring Lakshmi, Saraswati, Ganesh and Kartik. The Hindu community believed that Goddess Durga arrives in earth from heaven during the puja. This year she will arrive on an elephant. As part of last minute preparations for Sharadiya Durgotsab, idol makers and artisans are now passing their busiest time in giving the final touch to idols at puja mandaps. Hindus are waiting eagerly...