October 4, 2022
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New York City Mayor joins Durga Puja celebrations 

Adams was accompanied by New York City’s Deputy Commissioner for International Affairs Dilip Chauhan…reports Asian Lite News

New York City Mayor Eric Adams joined the Indian community in celebrating Durga Puja in the city, highlighting the festival’s message of triumph of good over evil.

The Durga puja this year is celebrated from October 1 to 5.

“Durga Puja celebrates the triumph of good over evil. That’s something we can all appreciate in these challenging times. What a joy and honour to join our city’s Bengali community in Queens tonight,” Eric Adams tweeted on Sunday.

Adams was accompanied by New York City’s Deputy Commissioner for International Affairs Dilip Chauhan, news agency PTI reported.

Last month, Adams attended Ganesh Rathyatra festivities at the Hindu Temple Society of North America in Flushing in the city.

“Such a great experience to be a part of Grand Ganesh Rathyatra at the Hindu Temple Society of North America in Flushing. Diversity is our strength. #GaneshTempleStreet,” he had tweeted.

Durga Puja is an annual Hindu festival which reveres and pays homage to the Hindu goddess Durga and is also celebrated because of Durga’s victory over Mahishasur, a bovine asura in Hinduism.

Thus, the festival epitomises the victory of good over evil, though it is also in part a harvest festival celebrating the goddess as the motherly power behind all of life and creation. Durga puja coincides with Navaratri and Dussehra celebrations observed by other traditions of Hinduism

It is particularly popular and traditionally celebrated in the Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Odisha, Tripura, and the country of Bangladesh.

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