Maa Durga is everywhere including cyberspace connecting giving us hope and strength writes SONAL SRIVASTAVAOm durgaya namah prompts a priest at a Durga Puja pandal in Toronto urging devotees to chant ...

We can beat any kind of negativity by harnessing positive energies around us reports MONA MEHTA from the sidelines of the dancedrama titled Shri Durga New Delhi Thr ...

The beats of the dhak mark the beginning of Maa's puja at 9:30 AM, the conclusion of the puja, the Bali ritual, and the offering and removal of Anna Bhog. The evening prayer, Sandhya Arati ...

And a Mexican percussionist was picking up dhak beats from a YouTube link. A one-day Puja, organised by a group of Bengalis in Guadalajara in Mexico, was held on a grander scale this year, harnessing ...

Advertisment The ritual of ‘kanakanjali’ is performed during Durga Puja to bid farewell to the goddess before immersing her in a river. The ritual involves dressing the goddess in the proverbial ...

We have urged all the community's puja committees to celebrate the festival and have asked them not to play music, except essential instruments like ‘dhak’ etc to pay respect to Ratan Tata.’’.

The festival of Durga Puja 2024 is here and this brings us to ... The members from the Bengali community made Alpona and traditional Bengali Dhak was played to celebrate the occasion.

This same music is used during Durga Maa's aarti and puja. It's the insane creativity of our West Bengal. They've managed to play dhak using water.” “Wow....creativity at its best ...

The signature beat of a dhak is impossible to miss or confuse with anything else. We find many references to this in our literature and it's easy to understand why. Durga Puja does not sound so ...

The formal festivities start on “Maha Sashthi,” the sixth day, highlighted by the grand unveiling of Durga’s idol to the public amid the vibrant beats of “dhakis” playing the traditional “dhak” drum, ...

Dhunuchi Nach is a high-spirit dance that is performed on the beats of Dhak to thank ‘Goddess Durga’.