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Shubho Mahalaya 2025: Timing, rituals, significance and 40 best wishes for your friends, family & loved onesMahalaya, observed on September 21, 2025, marks the beginning of Durga Puja festivities and the transition from Pitru Paksha to Devi Paksha...- Honouring the departedAcross religions, honouring the departed is a common practice. Hinduism regards the Bhadrapada month as sacred, with the waxing fortnight d...
- Pitru Paksha 2025: Start and end dates, significance, and rituals for honoring ancestrorsPitru Paksha, a 16-day period for honoring ancestors, begins on September 7 and concludes on September 21, 2025, with Sarvapitri Amavasya. ...
- West Bengal: Night-long protests over doctor's murder mark Mahalaya ahead of Durga PujaProtests erupted across West Bengal on Mahalaya, demanding justice for a raped and murdered doctor from RG Kar hospital. Demonstrators, not...
- Mahalaya Amavasya 2024: Date, time, significance, and ritualsMahalaya Amavasya, also known as Sarva Pitri Amavasya, is a significant day in Hinduism for performing rituals to honor ancestors. In 2024,...
- Pitru Paksha Shradh 2024: Here are dos and don'ts you should strictly follow during these daysPitru Paksha, starting on September 18, 2024, is a 16-day period in the Hindu calendar dedicated to honoring ancestors. Rituals such as pit...
- Pitru Paksha 2024: Check Shradh Start Date, time, significance and Full CalendarShradh 2024 Date and Time: Pitru Paksha 2024 will commence on September 18 and conclude on October 3 with Mahalaya or Sarva Pitri Amavasya....
- September 2024 festival calendar: Ganesh Chaturthi, Hartalika Teej, Anant Chaudas, Shradh, here are all the datesSeptember 2024 in India will be marked by a range of festivals celebrating spirituality, devotion, and cultural heritage. From Ganesh Chatu...
- Mahalaya Durga Puja 2023: History, significance and the rituals associated with itMahalaya is a significant day in the Hindu calendar, particularly celebrated in West Bengal, India, and Bangladesh. It marks the beginning ...
- Mahalaya: Prelude to Durga Puja, when the stage is set for arrival of the GoddessMahalaya signifies the arrival of Goddess Durga (another form of Shakti), to earth from her heavenly abode in Kailasha.
- Noida Kalibari: A journey towards reaffirmation of faith, culture, and identityThe Kalibari has gradually evolved to be a cultural stronghold of the Bengali community in Noida.
- For Bengalis, Mahalaya is not just the prelude to 10-day-long festival but a day of Maa Durga's homecomingMahalaya marks the beginning of the 10-day-long Durga Puja.
- Durga Puja 2020: Will Indians wake up at 4 am, tune into radio & listen to 'Mahisasurmardini'?It is a a ritual that’s as much fun as it’s challenging.
- Reign of terror, jungle raj in Bengal, time over for Mamata govt: BJP working president J P NaddaNadda also performed a "mass tarpan" for party workers who lost their lives in political violence in the state in the last few years.
- Soul FoodTheir living descendants are supposed to provide the portions in the form of food ritually offered in Shradh ceremony.
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