Durga Puja
Festival
Photographs from India
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Priests perform the final rituals of immersing the 'Darpan' to mark the
completion of the Durga Puja Festival on Maha Dashami in Kolkata
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A large number of devotees pay their respect to Mother Durga during the
Durga Puja on Mahanabami - the ninth day of the festival - in Kolkata
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Priests perform rituals beneath a clay idol of goddess Durga flanked by
those of her children during Durga Puja - the biggest festival of Bengal -
in Kolkata.
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'Havan,' a special prayer for the welfare of all, is being performed at a
Durga Puja ceremony on the 'Mahanavami' Day in New Delhi
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A priest performs rituals beneath the clay idol of goddess Durga on the
first day of Durga Puja at a 'pandal' in New Delhi
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Women devotees bidding farewell to mother Durga on the occasion of Dasami
- the last and tenth day of the Durga Puja festival - at a 'pandal' in New
Delhi
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Women devotees exchange vermilion and bid farewell to the mother goddess
at the conclusion of the Durga Puja on Dasami Day at a 'pandal' in New
Delhi
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Married women exchange 'sindoor' or vermilion, a ritual performed on the
last day of the Durga Puja Celebrations, at a 'pandal' in New Delhi
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Durga idols are being assembled at the Geeta Ghat on river Yamuna in Delhi
for immersion after the completion of the Durga Puja celebrations
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People sing and dance around the goddess Durga idol before its immersion
in the waters of river Yamuna at Geeta Ghat in Delhi
