The annual Durga Puja festival is a chance for immigrants to retain their connection to home — and pass on culture to a new generation
Priest Animesh Chowdhury prepares a figure of the goddess Durga as the Northern Virginia Bengali Association celebrates Durga Puja, at Park View High School in Sterling, Va. A many-armed idol of a Hindu goddess presided at the front of a high school gym in Sterling Saturday. A crowd of people gathered around it, their hands pressed together as they repeated a Sanskrit prayer intoned by a priest.
The goddess is Durga and this weekend marks her annual festival, the Durga Puja, celebrated by Bengali communities in India and across the world. The legend associated with the festival tells the story of how Durga came to defeat a demon named Mahishasura, whom the gods blessed with invulnerability to attacks by either men or gods. Believing no woman could defeat him, Mahishasura invaded the Earth. The gods in turn created Durga, imbuing her with their power, and sent her to battle Mahishasura.
There is a major Durga Puja held in Montgomery Country, and families have been celebrating in Virginia for three decades, Chakraborty said. The Virginia event started small, with about 150 participants in a backyard, but has grown over the year to require a school-sized vessel.
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