The nine day festival celebrating the goddess Durga and her other avatars; Navratri starts today. In West Bengal #Navratri is the nine day long Pujo culminating in the immersion ritual at the end. In Gujarat #Navratri2018 will be a whirl of 9 days of dancing and festivities in honour of the mother goddess while other Indian states have their own unique celebrations. Navratri is also a time for fasting and resisting epicurean temptations. It is also a time for navratri memes. Here are some that you may identify with.
As this twitterer says, they may have all sorts of aches and pains the rest of the year. However, all is well during navratri! Because garba!
Some decided to send out serious messages on the occasion of the first of the nine days of Navratri; others decided to make funny memes!
The devout are enjoined not to partake of meat or eggs during the nine day festival. Resisting temptation is tough for a lot of people!
Falguni Pathak is probably the best known garba singer in the world and is known to surface around this time each year. According to one tweet, “Falguni Pathak and Devang Patel are modern day kumbhkaran. They come to life for 9 days during #navaratri and then go back to hibernation”
Funny man and garba singer Devang Patel is another performer who seems to resurface around Navratri.
Whether or not they can dance, they will dance! This line in Gujarati roughly translated, means “let all that go; we’ll start our own.”
The dance steps, the songs and the outfits all change with the times; evolve to keep pace.
The words of the garba match perfect with that drake video…almost too well!
As girls and boys dance and whirl to the frenetic beat of the music late into the night, many new romances are born… for some that is.
There are many who carefully plan out what to wear on each of the nine nights. Some will mix and match craftily to create different outfits; some will even go to the extreme of buying nine separate outfits.
…that is just how it is!
Some garba venues are more desirable than others. Passes for some events are coveted and much sought after. Navratri is mainly about worshipping the goddess but it is also about being seen at the right place at the right time with the right people.
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