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Durga is alluring and untamable! Her 18 arms keep off a myriad of weapons and symbols including a conch, discus above all associated with Vishnu. Behind ...

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56 feet Durga Ikon in Vempalnagar, Pedagantyada, Visakhapatnam.

Nepali Language Recognition Day'- 36 years of Democracy

To demand the rights of the Gorkhas Late Anang Singh Thapa, editor of the Nepali newspaper “Jagrath Gorkha’ published from Dheradun and his two colleagues Late Bir Singh Bhandari, late Narendra Singh Rana in the year 18th January, 1956 submitted a memorandum to his excellence, the first President f Independent India Dr. Rajendra Prasad Sharma demanding the constitutional recognition of Nepali language just like other Indian languages recognized in the eight schedule of the Indian constitution. Late Anand Singh Thapa was the first Gorkha son of the soil of this country to voice the demand for the recognition of Nepali language which ignited a peaceful democratic struggle amongst the Gorkhas to achieve the constitutional demand which is seen as the first step in laying the foundation for the struggle. The struggle started from Dehradun and found its way to Sikkim via Darjeeling and spread to North East gaining momentum all over India. In Darjeeling a Nepali literary organization

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(Durga is arrant!) before hurling her into the Ganges to send her familiar with. The vigour at the ghats on this end endlessly of Durga Puja in Kolkata, India is contagious. Even Bengali women who are most of the time truly docile and retiring are shouting with the men, faces covered in crimson sindoor puissance from the festivities that took position earlier in the day.

This is Durga Puja, the biggest fete in Bengal. Each year around the end of September to the mid-point of October Goddess Durga comes to lifetime all across this northeast part of India. It is during this span that Bengalis eyewitness six days of praying and merrymaking in honor of the coming of Ma Durga who leaves her shush Shiva’s internal to assail the dirt for a few days.

According to antediluvian Hindu Bhagavad-Gita, Ma Durga, a preservative and motherly Goddess, was created by a collective creation of the Gods when Mohashashur, a man with wonderful powers became a skimpy power thirsty and was on a footway to exterminate the ground and the heavens. She was sent to mould and Mohashashur demolish in warmth with her. A action was arranged between Durga and her beau; if Mohashashur won, they would affiliate. Great chronicle pithy, Durga defeated the foul Mohashashur and it is this winning over infamous that Bengalis sanctify today during the Durga Puja birthday.

In preparation for the Puja, communities initiate thousands of dollars to engender vast pandals, pretentious beat a hasty retreat-succeed temples. Pandals often stalk themes that variation from year to year and each community competes to have the largest, most euphuistic and artistic pandal of all. On the newer day of the Puja, called Sasthi, the Durga statues are placed in the pandals across the town. On each day of the commemoration Bengalis do particular Pujas or prayers. Bijoya Dasami, the sure day of the festivities, marks the winning of Durga over Mohashashur and of gracious over immoral.

The figure of Durga always has ten arms, each armed with a various weapon old to action awful. In every pandal you will see that Durga is surrounded by her consort of Gods and Goddesses. The set-up in every pandal is the same: Ganesh the elephant God on the far leftist, then Laxmi the Goddess of profusion, in the center is always Ma Durga, then Saraswati the Goddess of information and music, and done Durga’s son Kartik.

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3 held for statue desecration
3 held for statue desecration Zee NewsSpeaking to newsmen here, additional steersman-general of police Krishnam Raju said the arrested categorize Vakapalli Durga Babu (20), Kanchipalli Anji Babu (19) and Manduri Anil (19) of Konkapalli. He said the accused damaged the statues in an inebriated Three arrested in Ambedkar statues caseDrunk men blamed for desecrationall 35 gossip articles »

Jagan for lifting lockout
to Mohan's partner Durga that he will bear the educational expenditure of their four children. Earlier, Jagan visited the desecrated and destroyed statues of Dalit bossman Dr BR Ambedkar at Amalapuram, Bandivaripeta, Rollap-alem and at Chindadagaruvu.and more »

1 more held for defiling statues
Constabulary on Saturday presented three youths before the media and said they had desecrated the statues in Amalapuram on January 23. Curiously, the young - Vakapalli Durga Babu, Kanchipalli Anji Babu and Manduri Anil, all in their 20s - said they had been and more »

Statues: Main accused surrenders, Dalit leaders held
PTI, Updated: January 30, 2012 02:06 IST Rajahmundry: Gandham Pallam Raju, the necessary accused in the desecration of statues of BR Ambedkar in East Godavari, surrendderd even as patrol foiled attempts by dalit leaders to stage grouse against the and more »

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The Siva chapel houses four statues. Located in the central chamber is the Siva icon, while in the north chamber is the Dewi Durga Mahisasuramardhini statue, in the west, Ganesya figurine, and in the south, Agastya. The Brahma temple contains the god