Durga Puja 2023: Date, Tithi, Puja Vidhi, Celebration and Significance

Durga Puja 2023: Durga Puja holds a great significance in Hindu religion. People celebrate this festival with great grandeur and enthusiasm. They worship Goddess Durga with immense devotion and dedication. This festival is mainly celebrated in West Bengal, Kolkata, Bihar, Tripura, Assam and Odisha. Durga Puja is celebrate during Navaratri days. Durga Puja started from Shashti Tithi of Shukla Paksha in the month of Karthik as per Bengali Calendar.This year, it is being started from October 20, 2023 and it will end with the Visarjan which is going to be celebrated on October 23, 2023.
Durga Puja 2023: Date, Time and Tithi

Durga Puja 2023: How it is celebrated?
Durga Puja holds a great religious significance among Bengali community people. They celebrate this festival with great joy and happiness. During this festival, people visit various pandals, each pandal is decorated with unique theme. They do Praan Pratishtha of the idol by chanting various Vedic Mantras. There is a ritual of taking a banana plant to the river and give it a bath, drape this in saree and it is considered as a wife of Lord Ganesha.
Dhunichi Dance is a famous ritual in Durga Puja. They perform this dance on a rhythmix beats of Dhak drums. They carry an earthen pot full of burning cocnut shells and dance. Kumari Puja is also done on the same day in which small girls are worshipped.
Sindoor khela is also an integral part of the Durga Puja festival. Married women visit the pandals and offer vermillion, sweets to Goddess Durga. After worshipping goddess Durga, they apply vermillion to other married women and enjoy the the festival.
At last after completing Durga Puja, devotees take the idol to the nearby river or sea and immerse the idol there on the day of Visarjan. A grand procession is being carried out with a large number of people dancing and singing the devotional songs.
Durga Puja brings the people together, gives an opportunity to worship Durga Maa in different ways and encourage them to celebrate this festival with immense enthusiasm and zeal. Times of India wishes everyone a very happy Durga Puja..!!