Hindu community takes final preparations for Durga Puja

Hindu community takes final preparations for Durga Puja

The Hindu community of the country is poised to celebrate the "Sharadiya Durga Puja", their biggest religious festival, scheduled to start on Wednesday.
Preparations are afoot for the annual five-day festival at temples and makeshift puja mandaps across the country to welcome Goddess Durga.
On Wednesday last, the Hindu community people celebrated Mahalaya inviting Goddess Durga to her paternal home earth from Kailash (heaven) along with her offspring Lakshmi, Saraswati, Ganesh and Kartik.
Hindu community believed that Goddess Durga arrives in earth from heaven during the puja as she will arrive on palanquin this year.