Festivals
This category has all the blogs related to festivals
The Villain Some Villages Mourn: Why Ravana Is Burned in Delhi and Worshipped in Mandsaur
On Dussehra evening, millions of Indians cheer as Ravana's effigy explodes into flames. A few hundred kilometres away, in towns like Mandsaur and Bisrakh, people quietly mourn him. Same Ravana. Same epic. How did India's most famous villain end up as a god, a scholar, and a beloved son-in-law?
Mahishasuramardini: Why the Gods Needed a Goddess to Kill Mahishasura
Every Durga idol shows the same scene: a ten-armed goddess on a lion, a trident driven through a demon emerging from a buffalo. Most people know the picture. Fewer know the story behind it, or why the most powerful gods in the universe had to step back and let a goddess finish what they could not.
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