Durga Puja
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Durga Puja
from Sanskrit Durga + puja worship
Example Sentences
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Chandreyee Chatterjee’s family has been celebrating Durga Puja at their home in Kolkata for 16 years.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024
Each Tramjatra has a theme, like Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali or the city’s Durga Puja festival.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2024
The Durga Puja, the Bengal region’s biggest religious festival, concluded in Kolkata on Tuesday.Credit...
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
The Hindu community, the second largest in the Muslim-majority nation, is gearing up to celebrate one of its largest religious festivals — Durga Puja — next month.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
Everyone who could get away had gone to the Hills or out to sea; and the offices being closed for the Hindu holidays of the Durga Puja, it was extremely difficult to get work done.
From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh
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