{"id":2040,"date":"2022-09-27T04:57:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T09:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:11:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T15:11:05","slug":"what-makes-durga-puja-a-grand-festival-in-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/what-makes-durga-puja-a-grand-festival-in-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"Durga Puja: Interesting Things to Know about the Biggest Festival of Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"
Durga Puja<\/span><\/strong>, the grandest and most spectacular festival of India, is in full swing now.\u00a0 T<\/strong>his festivity is so divine, joyous and fabulous that it never ceases to keep us waiting eagerly for the arrival of the Goddess. Every year, we cover the Durga Puja celebration on Travel Beats in different ways.\u00a0We have come up with an article on the age-old rituals of Durga Puja to keep some requests from the Indian community in USA so that they can share it with their American friends. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Dhaak<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n With the image of dhaak, the face of Goddess Durga surfaces to the mind. A most identifiable icon of the Durga Puja festivity, dhaaks are beaten during the worship of the Goddess, dhunuchi naach, aarti in the mornings and evenings from the beginning to the end of the festival.<\/strong> The beating of dhaak defines the ambience, dominates the mood and fills the air on the festive days.<\/p>\n Dhunuchi Naach<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Dhunuchi Naach is an attraction of the Durga Puja celebration on festive evenings. In the Bengali community<\/span><\/a><\/span>, boys, girls, men and women perform this traditional dance holding earthen lamps full of burning coconut shell with both hands and facing the Goddess.<\/strong> The rhythmic moves of their dancing feet are accompanied by the beats of dhaaks. The excitement soars and crowd cheers with the fast beating of dhaaks during the performance. It is a most entertaining and crowd-pulling part of the Durga Puja event in Kolkata, the rest of Bengal and other states of India. Women wear dhakai, taant and jamdani saris with golden work in the typical Bengali dressing style, and men wear embroidered kurtas of different colors in combination with white dhotis for this occasion.<\/p>\n READ ALSO<\/strong>\u00a0Folk Culture of Bengal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Pushpanjali<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n