Each year, the 10-day competition of durga puja brings with it the excitement of buying new clothes, savouring delicious food, dancing to the rhythm of the dhak or simply admiring the effective idols of durga. The last 5 days of the festival contain rituals and services, and the streets of pune will be packed with devotees out and about inside the puja spirit. The pageant begins with mahalaya, which, consistent with bengali subculture, is the day while goddess durga, at the side of her children, goddess lakshmi, goddess saraswati, shri ganesha and shri kartikeya, start their journey to durga’s maternal domestic.
One of the oldest puja pandals in the city, the pune kalibari might be celebrating its eightieth sarbojonin puja this year. “for this yr, we've got made a reproduction of the akshardham as part of the puja pandal decoration. The spotlight of this 12 months’s puja will be the all-lady dhaki troupe from kolkata, who will carry out on vijaya dashami.