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Saraswati Puja, a festival honouring the goddess of learning and arts, is celebrated with domestic pujas, and familial gatherings in Kolkata on a date between the last week of January and the middle of February. The day is sacred to Saraswati, goddess of learning whose worship is celebrated with great splendor mainly by students and artists.
Vasant Panchami, also rendered Vasanta Panchami [4] [5] and Saraswati Puja in honour of the Hindu goddess Saraswati, is a festival that marks the preparation for the arrival of spring. The festival is celebrated in Indian religions in different ways depending on the region.
Beyond South Asia, Durga Puja is organized by Bengali, Odia, Assamese and the Nepali communities in the United States of America. [104] Durga Puja celebrations have also been started in Hong Kong by the Hindu Indian Bengali diaspora. [105] In Canada, Bengali Hindu communities both from Bangladesh and West Bengal, India organise several Durga ...
Saraswati Puja is performed and books, musical instruments, etc. are worshiped alongside the goddess. People perform a ritual called Simollanghan, crossing boundary of the village and collect leaves of the apta tree.
That Puja got a massive popularly in the passage of time and the locality was named after it Ramrajatala. [4] [5] But during that time, Saraswati Puja was very famous in that area and the villagers used to enjoy the same a lot from previous 300 years. So some villagers those were the fond of the Saraswati Puja opposed the Ram Puja.
Saraswati Puja at Baranagar Ramakrishna Mission in 2019 Kali Puja at Baranagar Ramakrishna Mission in 2013 Baranagar Math near Pramanick ghat is the place where Swami Vivekananda and a few other disciples of Sri Ramakrishna Dev started their spiritual journey that culminated in forming the monastic order later located at Belur Math ,the present ...
An integral part of Manasa Puja is the Arandhan or Ranna Puja.Depending on the place in West Bengal, the Manasa and Ashtanag Puja begins on any Saturday or Tuesday and on every fifth day from Naga Panchami during the Bhadro month of Bengali calendar, and on Bhadro Sankranti, Manasa and Ashtanag Puja are completed and Bisarjan is performed.
The fair typically overlaps with the Hindu festival of Saraswati Puja. Saraswati is the ... Mamata Banerjee inaugurated the Kolkata Book Fair on 24 January 2012 at 4: ...