Durga Puja 2021 – Why Do We Celebrate This Festival? | Bookosmia
Hey everyone! Your friend, Sara here.
Durga Puja is here! To take us through the essence of this beloved Indian festival, here’s 8 year old Prisha Mehra, a Bookosmian from Kolkata.
Congrats to Word Munchers for nurturing her creativity. She goes to Modern High school for girls.
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Durga Puja is a Hindu festival celebrated to mark the victory of good over evil as the mother goddess Durga killed Mahishasura on this day.
There is a story behind this. Once Brahma granted Mahishasura the boon to be killed only in the hands of a woman.
Soon the asuras were troubling the devas. This news reached the three gods, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. They created the mother of goddesses, Shakti of Shakti, Durga Maa.
Goddess Durga then fought Mahishasura over a period of fifteen days during which he kept changing his shape to become different animals and misled her.
Finally, when he transformed into a buffalo, Goddess Durga stabbed him with her trident and that was the end of him.
