For the first time in Jeypore, the women and girls from different communities celebrated the Dandiya night. The ladies were seen with their traditional Chaliya choli or lehenga along with traditional sticks.
Ritu Agrawal, Ridhi Baid and Sonali Jain said, “It is for the first time we organised the event and had a lot of fun while celebrating it. Starting from different steps of Dandiya, we worshipped Maa Durga.”
Raas or Dandiya Raas is the traditional folk dance of Gujarat or Rajasthan and is associated with scenes of Holi and lila of lord Krishna and Radha at Vrindavan. It is the featured dance of Navratri evenings in western India. During Navaratri festival, Garba is seen in many cities, especially in Gujrati society, but with passage of time, the custom is spreading to different small towns and places and different religions. Barsha Mishra, Priyanka , Prachi Jain, Aastha Agrawal, Rinky Pattnaik, Chandini Baid, Shivani Chuhan and Smeeti Mishra said by organising the event, they earned communal amity.