India gears up for Diwali, Bengal prepares for Kali Puja
With The streets filled with bright decorative lights, both kali Pujo and Diwali is nothing short of stunning visuals. Being a nocturnal event, it calls for special preparation.
Goddess Kali is the destroyer of evil, she is the female form of Lord Shiva, 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 and is closely associated with time.
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 on the occasion of Diwali wrote on Twitter: "Happy Diwali"
(Images by Subhodeep Sardar/IBNS)
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