land and Revenue Minister Amar Bauri enthusiastically took part in Dandiya organised by Vinayka Eventa at Bokaro on Saturday night. Beside Gujarati families men and women for several other communities participated in the dance passionately.
With the beginning of Navratri festival, city-based communities like Gujaratis, Nepalis, Maharashtrians, and Tamils offered prayer to goddess Durga in their own way.
For Gujarati families, Pujas bring a festival of dance. We offer our prayers through Dandiya dance,” said Sambhu, a famous goldsmith. “Dandiya is basically a war dance performed to please goddess Durga”, he added.
The Tamils offer prayers to their divinities - Durga, lakshmi, and Saraswati for nine days and decorate their homes with clay figurines of animals and birds.
The tenth day is considered auspicious for a child to begin learning letters. The ritual is called - Upnayana, said Vinod, working in a private firm at Bokaro.
While the Maharastrians began their community meditation function Sahjoga which aims at evoking the souls of the individuals. They perform Pujas by reading stories related with different incarnations of their deity. They take only vegetarian food during the festival and on the tenth day, they make Puranpholi - a dish prepared with lentils and sugar and seek blessings of their elders, Ashok a supervisor at BSP said.
During Navratra Nepali community sacrifices several goats outside the temple where they are residing near camp I. The ritual begins on the eighth day of pujas and continues till the ninth day.
With the festivities of Durga Puja, security has been enhanced at the all the Durga Puja spots, hospitals, cinema halls, railway stations, bus Stands including sector market areas to nab the unsocial elements found in involved in any mischievous actions.
Police have embarked upon a novel method of conducting checking of two and four wheeler’s with the help of metal detectors; the apprehension of some untoward incident looms large among the denizen of Bokaro.