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Durga Puja in a Bengali household that has celebrated it since 1859. This year, the family’s seventh generation was part of the celebration.
Durga Puja festival will be from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday at Bharatiya Temple and Cultural Center of Greater Lafayette in West Lafayette.
Durga Puja festivities, which took place this week, overlap with the nine-night Navaratri, also celebrating the divine feminine, in other traditions of Hinduism.
This Durga is tiny, as she has to be, shipped all the way from India. In Calcutta, at the end of Durga Puja, we let the earthen image of the goddess dissolve into the Hoogly River.
My family obliges, making for a fun ride. This year, a friend invited me to join her for Durga Puja. An archetype of womanhood rarely seen or elevated in Western cultures, the goddess stands out.