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Four-day annual Durga Puja festival comes to an end
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Delhi: The four-day long Hindu festival "Durga
Puja" concluded on Saturday with the immersion of
idols of Goddess Durga. Hundreds of devotees here
marched in processions carrying idols of Goddess Durga
to river Yamuna. The immersion symbolically ends the
festivities. Goddess Durga is worshipped across the
country during the nine day "Navratri" festival but
public display of idols in Pandals or makeshift temples
is held for four days and the idols are immersed in
the sea, rivers and lakes on the last day. There was
a mixture of emotions amongst the people who were
present to bid adieu to their favourite goddess. "I
am feeling sad, as we have immersed Ma Durga's idol
but as she will be coming again next year, that makes
me happy," said Basudha Das, a devotee.
-Oct 23, 2004
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