People throughout India are celebrating Durga Puja throughout the Navaratri season. The occasion is well known for five days. This 12 months, it’s celebrated upto Thursday (October 2, 2025). For generations, Durga Puja has been greater than a pageant.
Persons are showcasing the festive ambiance by celebrating their jubilant temper within the type of creatively made pandals. There are some distinctive pandals made out of wooden, metallic, coconut fibre, plastic, and so on. The temper is full of life not simply in West Bengal, however throughout the nation. A few of 2025’s Puja pandals spanned themes ranging from meals adulteration to acid assault victims. Employees within the pandals come from districts throughout West Bengal to present form to the themed extravagant art work that deliver the Durga Pooja to life in different states.
Even intercourse staff of Kolkata performed the thirteenth version of their very own Durga Pooja combating social stigma and exhibiting resilience. With Kolkata going through incessant rains, some Durga Pooja pandals had been flooded, leaving organisers to restore the damages.
Check out photos from everywhere in the nation:
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Kolkata: Durga pooja art work displayed at a south Kolkata pandal in Haridevpur 41 Pally. Folks in Kolkata have created loads of grand pandals throughout the town.
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Kolkata: A employee decorates a pandal with used plastic bottles on the theme of ‘setting’.
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Prayagraj: An illuminated view of a pandal themed on “Sheesh Mahal” (Palace of Mirrors), throughout the ‘Durga Puja’ pageant.
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Guwahati: A devotee affords prayers to Goddess Durga.
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Visakhapatnam: Devotees performing puja in Outdated City.
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Bhubaneswar: Crowd gathers close to an enormous puja pandal to witness the Durga Pooja festivities.
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Kolkata: Dakshindari youths portrayed acid assault survivors as their Durga puja theme for 2025.
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Bhubaneswar: An illuminated view of the Saheed Nagar pandal.
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Puri: Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has created sand artwork for group India’s victory in Asia Cup last with goddess Durga idol at Puri Seaside.
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Bhubaneswar: Folks’s artistic pursuits are seen at an impressive pandal.
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Vijayawada: The work that goes in, forward of Dasara pageant. Artists should create a number of idols for the Navaratri season.
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Mangaluru: An artist making the idol for Durga Pujja Samithi of Bengali Affiliation.
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M. Periasamy
Coimbatore: Idol makers from Kolkata deliver alive Goddess Durga.
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Visakhapatnam: An artist busy giving last touches to the idol of Goddess Durga at Kancharapalem.
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Chennai: Durga idol artists work in T. Nagar, on the Thakkar Bapa Vidyalaya.
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Nagpur: Devotees carry an idol of Goddess Durga throughout the Navratri pageant celebration.
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Ranchi: An illuminated view of a giant pandal exhibits the jubilant temper in different cities additionally.
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Kolkata: A priest prepares to hope in entrance of an idol of the goddess Durga positioned on an altar.
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Kolkata: A view of a pandal based mostly on the theme of “Operation Sindoor”.
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Kolkata: A view of Simla Byayam Samity’s Durga Puja pandal on the event of Maha Shasti.
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Kolkata: Folks go to the Kashi Bose Lane pandal themed on ‘Pakdondi’.
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Nadia: A view of a pandal themed on Kedarnath temple throughout ‘Durga Puja’ pageant, in Nadia, West Bengal.
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Kolkata: Folks go to a neighborhood pandal themed on ‘Outdated Calcutta’.
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Kolkata: An idol of Goddess Durga put in at a neighborhood puja pandal.
Revealed – September 30, 2025 03:37 pm IST
