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Durga Pooja is the one of the most revered religious festivals of India. It is celebrated across the country with full devotion and joy. The festival is celebrated for a span of nine days and starts with the first day of Navratri. From the sixth day the huge idols of Goddess Durga are placed in large and highly decorated Pandals, where the devotees come and offer prayers and seek the blessings of Goddess Durga.
Vedic chants and devotional songs are a common scenario during the Durga Pooja celebrations which makes the environment completely devotional and spiritual.
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Durga Puja (pronounced [dʊrɡaː puːdʒaː]), also called Durgotsava (pronounced [dʊrɡoːtsəʋə]), is an annual Hindu festival originating in the Indian subcontinent which reveres and pays homage to the Hindu goddess, Durga.[2][3] It is particularly popular in the Indian states of West Bengal, Assam, Bihar, Tripura, and Odisha, the country of Bangladesh, and the diaspora from this region, and also in Nepal, where it is celebrated as Dashain. The festival is observed in the Indian calendar month of Ashwin, which corresponds to the months of September-October in the Gregorian calendar,[4][5] and is a ten-day festival,[6][2] of which the last five are of significance.[7][5] The puja is performed in homes and in the public, the latter featuring temporary stage and structural decorations (known as pandals). The festival is also marked by scripture recitations, performance arts, revelry, gift giving, family visits, feasting, and public processions. [2][8][9] Durga puja is an important festival in the Shaktism tradition of Hinduism