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Kolkata celebrates Kali Pujo today

Kolkata celebrates Kali Pujo today

India Blooms News Service | | 19 Oct 2017, 03:23 pm
Kolkata, Oct 19 (IBNS): Continuing the mood of festivity and enjoyment, Kolkata and people of West Bengal are celebrating Kali Puja on Thursday.

Kali Puja or Shyama Puja is a Hindu festival predominantly celebrated by the Bengali community.

Being a nocturnal event, it calls for special preparation

Goddess Kali is the destroyer of evil as she is the female form of Lord Shiva and the more expressive form of Goddess Shakti.

Kali, as the very name suggests, means black or dark, the colour of the Goddess herself.

She embodies the extreme of everything.

The Bengali community celebrates the festival in West Bengal.

This year, it has coincided with the celebration of Diwali.

Diwali on the other hand is the worshiping of Goddess Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth and prosperity.

Be it Kali Puja or Diwali, both are incomplete with the bursting of crackers and the distribution of sweets.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tweeted: "Heartiest greetings to all on the occasion of Kali Pujo and Deepavali."
 

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