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Happy Navratri Quotes: Positive Navratri Quotes in English
A good Navratri quotes does something a wish does not. A wish is addressed to someone; a quote is addressed to everyone, including yourself. It is the line you put under a photograph, the thought you send to a friend…
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Navratri Colours 2026: All 9 Colours, Their Significance and Which Colour Is Today
Somewhere around the second week of October, office WhatsApp groups across India start carrying the same forwarded image: nine coloured squares, nine dates, nine goddess names. By Day 3 half the floor is in red, and…
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Navratri Wishes: Happy Navratri Wishes, Messages and How to Wish
Here is a small window every October when your phone becomes almost unusable. The same three forwards arrive from eleven different people, complete with the same glittering GIF. And somewhere in that flood, the one…
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Why Is Navratri Celebrated for 9 Days? What Each Day Signifies
why do we celebrate navratri for 9 days, Nine is not a round number. It is not a week, not a fortnight, not a lunar month. So why does Navratri run for exactly nine days — no more, no less? The answer turns out to have…
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What Is Navratri and Why Is It Celebrated? The Story Behind the Festival
Ask ten people why we celebrate the Navratri festival and you will get ten answers, all of them partly right. One will say it is for Goddess Durga. Another will say it is about Rama and Ravana. Someone from Gujarat will…
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When Is Navratri Festival? Navratri 2026 Dates, Today’s Day and the Last Day
There is a particular kind of quiet excitement that settles over an Indian home in the weeks before Navratri. The brass kalash is taken down and polished. Someone remembers that the barley seeds have to be soaked. The…
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Ganesh Chaturthi Quotes, Wishes, Messages and Captions to Share
Ganesh Chaturthi quotes and wishes are shared as Bappa arrives in homes and pandals across the country. In 2026 the festival begins on Monday, 14 September and concludes with visarjan on Anant Chaturdashi, Friday, 25…
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Importance of Ganesh Chaturthi: When It Is Celebrated and Why It Is Ganesha’s Birthday
The importance of Ganesh Chaturthi lies in it being the birthday of Lord Ganesha, the deity worshipped before all others at the start of every undertaking, and the day on which his blessings for the removal of…
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What Is Ganesh Chaturthi: Meaning, Significance and Why We Celebrate It
Ganesh Chaturthi is the festival celebrating the birth of Lord Ganesha, the remover of obstacles and the giver of wisdom, observed on the fourth day of the bright fortnight of the month of Bhadrapada. In 2026 it falls…
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Ganesh Utsav: History, Origins and Who Started the Public Festival
Ganesh Utsav is the multi-day festival of Lord Ganesha, and in its modern public form it was started by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak in Pune in 1893, who transformed what had been a private household observance into a…