Navaratri Festival
Navaratri is a Hindu festival that spans nine nights (and ten days) and is celebrated every year in the autumn. This year 2020, it is started from October 17 and ends on October 25.It is observed for different reasons and celebrated differently in various parts of the Indian cultural phere. Celebrations include stage decorations, recital of the legend, enacting of the story,and chanting of the scriptures of Hinduism. The nine days are also a major crop season cultural event, such as competitive design and staging of pandals, a family visit to these pandals ndthe public celebration of classical and folk dances of Hindu culture. On the final day, called theVijayadashami or Dussehra, the statues are either immersed in a water body such as river and ocean, or alternatively the statue symbolizing the evil is burnt with fireworks marking evil's destruction. The festival also starts the preparation for one of the most important and widely celebrated holidays, Diwali, the festival of light...