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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.
Throughout the Bengali calendar, many festivals are celebrated. Durga Puja is solemnized as perhaps the most significant of all celebrations in West Bengal. [ 1 ] Here is a list of the main festivals of West Bengal.
Ayudha Puja and Saraswati Puja: ... Begins: The Navami (ninth) day of Navaratri: 2024 date: 11 October 2024: ... This page was last edited on 8 February 2025, ...
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.
Magh (Bengali: মাঘ) is the tenth month in the Bengali calendar. [1] This is the last month of the two months of winter season.This month correspond with January and February in Gregorian calendar.
In 2019, Kolkata's Durga Puja was nominated by the Indian government for the 2020 UNESCO Representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. [156] [157] Durga Puja also stands to be politically and economically significant. The committees organising Durga Puja in Kolkata have close links to politicians. [113]
Goddess Saraswati dressed in yellow sari on Vasant Panchami, Kolkata. She sits in a swing, holding a Veena, with books in one corner: Fifth day of the waxing moon of Magh (Hindu calendar) Vasant Panchami (also called Saraswati Puja by Bengalis and Odias) is celebrated for the blessing of Saraswati, goddess of wisdom and the arts. [6] Thaipusam ...