By: Keerthi Mohan
by Amit Roy FOR Hindu Bengalis, the main religious festival of the year is not Diwali, but Durga Puja, which this year runs until Friday (19). Back in India, the clay idols of “Mother” Durga, her two “sons”, Ganesh and Kartikeya, and two “daughters”, Lakshmi and Saraswati, are immersed in the Ganges at the end of the period of worship. This is to enable “mother”, who has been visiting her father’s home for a week, to return to her married abode. People brave heaving crowds of a million or more go “pandal hopping” in Kolkata to view the various Pujas…
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