Watch Kolkatans bid adieu to the goddess with this vibrant carnival of beautiful floats.
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00:28 The Durga Puja celebration culminates on Vijayadashami.
00:32 It is marked as the day when Maa Durga returns to her heavenly abode
00:37 to her husband Lord Shiva after slaying the demon.
00:41 [Music]
00:48 Before she bids adieu to her father's home,
00:50 married women perform Devi Baurav, the sacred ritual
00:54 which marks the final sending off of the Goddess,
00:58 followed by Shindur Khela,
01:01 where married women smear Shindur on each other
01:04 while dressed in the traditional red and white sarees.
01:07 Shindur is also applied on Maa Durga
01:10 while the women pray for their happy and long married lives.
01:14 [Music]
01:44 On Vijayadashami, Maa Durga idols are immersed in the holy Ganges.
01:49 The idols, from various pandals, as well as household pujas,
01:54 are taken in a procession towards the Ghat.
01:57 [Music]
02:05 This year, the second edition of the Grand Immersion Carnival,
02:10 organized by the West Bengal government at the iconic Red Road,
02:14 was all about grandeur.
02:17 [Music]
02:18 Starting from Fort William to the Immersion Ghat on the banks of the Hooghly,
02:24 61 idols, the most popular ones in the city,
02:28 sashayed down the kilometer-long stretch on beautifully decorated floats
02:33 depicting the theme of the pandals to which the Goddess belonged.
02:38 Over 50,000 were in attendance and over 5 million joined virtually.
02:44 The three hours of decadence was nothing short of spectacular.
02:50 [Music]
02:52 The Grand Carnival concluded with the visarjan or immersion of Maa Durga idols
02:58 at the Ghats of the Hooghly River,
03:00 symbolizing the unification of Maa Durga with Lord Shiva.
03:05 [Music]
03:10 Today I came to the immersion and it makes me feel very sad
03:14 because a lot of the idols I have seen before,
03:16 the pandal, very beautiful, and now they're just dying in the water.
03:20 This is really hard for me to see.
03:23 But overall it was a great experience.
03:25 [Music]
03:27 While the Goddess is immersed in the holy Ganges,
03:30 yet she continues to stay in our hearts.
03:33 As the immersion carnival brings down curtains on the five-day-long festivity,
03:38 the wait for the next year's Durga Puja and planning for the same begins.
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