- Title: Renaissance, environment dominate vibrant Hindu festivities in India
- Date: 9th October 2021
- Summary: KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL, INDIA (OCTOBER 09, 2021) (ANI-NO USE INDIA) EXTERIOR OF 'PANDAL'-TEMPORARY FESTIVE INSTALLMENT ON THE THEME OF BENGAL RENAISSANCE KOLKATA POLICE LOGO AND SIGNBOARD AT ENTRANCE AS GODDESS IDOL IN FORM OF BOOK CAN BE SEEN IN BACKDROP IDOL OF HINDU WARRIOR GODDESS DURGA KILLING DEMONS IN THE FORM OF A PAINTING IN BOOK BOOKS AT 'PANDAL' WITH PICTURES OF FAMOUS BENGALI INTELLECTUAL FIGURES PAINTING OF WEST BENGAL STATE CHIEF, MAMATA BANERJEE AT A BOOKSTALL DEDICATED TO HER PEOPLE CLICKING PICTURES PORTRAIT OF INDIAN SAINT AND PHILOSOPHER, SWAMI VIVEKANAND AND HIS TEACHER, RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHANSA, WITH BOOKSHELVES MAN CLICKING PICTURE OF GODDESS IDOL IDOL ORGANISER, SUJATA GUPTA, GOING THROUGH BOOKSHELVES BOOKS STACKED (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) ORGANISER, SUJATA GUPTA, SAYING: "It is the 200th year of Bengal Renaissance, so we are paying tributes to all the intellectual legends. This is the concept of our decoration. This is a library. Each shelf is dedicated to a particular legend. Even the idol of the goddess is in the form of a book." MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA (OCTOBER 08, 2021) (ANI-NO USE INDIA) (NIGHT SHOTS) IMAGE OF HINDU GOD, VISHNU IN FORM OF VENKATESWARA BALAJI, CREATED WITH MORE THAN 125,000 SMALL LIGHT BULBS AT ENTRANCE OF 'PANDAL' REFLECTION OF ILLUMINATED IMAGE SEEN IN POOL VARIOUS OF PEOPLE CLICKING PICTURES IDOL OF GODDESS SURROUNDED BY LIGHTING DECORATION PEOPLE CLICKING PICTURES PEOPLE AT 'PANDAL' IDOL PEOPLE AT 'PANDAL' (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) ORGANISER, HEMANK KIRLOSKAR, SAYING: "We thought that we should make the pandal with an environmental-friendly concept, in which the idol is made out of clay, completely dissolvable in water. The decoration concept has been taken from Kolkata. The way they celebrate the goddess during the festival there, we have brought it to Mumbai for the first time."
- Embargoed: 23rd October 2021 13:13
- Keywords: Bengal Renaissance Garba dance India Navratri environment-friendly festival folk goddess religion
- Location: KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL/MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA/ VADODARA, GUJARAT, INDIA
- City: KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL/MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA/ VADODARA, GUJARAT, INDIA
- Country: India
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Religion/Belief,Society/Social Issues
- Reuters ID: LVA001EYFRQZ3
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Devotees across India are celebrating the nine-day 'Navratri' festival by dedicating their festive instalments to key social causes in which they believe.
Organisers in eastern Kolkata city installed 'pandal', a temporary festive structure, dedicated to 200 years of Bengal Renaissance where the Hindu warrior Goddess Durga was presented in the form of a book, with a hymn dedicated to her written in Sanskrit.
There were also portraits of various personalities of the renaissance with a bookshelf dedicated to each of them.
In the country's financial capital Mumbai, organisers did away with luxurious installations made of thermocol and other non-degradable material harmful to the environment and instead installed decoration in form of tiny colourful lights.
In western Gujarat state, locals performed 'Garba' -a folk dance, to their heart's content at a local celebration wearing colourful and shiny dresses as an orchestra played on the stage.
'Navratri' is a nine-day festival dedicated to Goddess Durga and her various incarnations. Devotees observe fast during these nine days and temporary festive instalments known as 'pandals' are set up, where they pray and participate in the festivities.
'Navratri' culminates on the tenth day, which is celebrated as 'Dussehra'. - Copyright Holder: ANI (India)
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