Surat: Strong winds brought down a 60-feet tall effigy of Ravan before it was set on fire in Vesu area here during Dussehra festivities on Tuesday. Luckily, no one in the crowd of hundreds of people who had gathered to watch the demon king being burnt was hurt, as the effigy fell on the opposite side. As it was not possible to set the effigy upright again quickly, Ravan was torched while lying on his side, said Anil Agrawal, the organizer. The symbol of vanquished evil burned amid l...Read More

Gandhinagar: Chief Minister Vijay Rupani performed ‘shastra puja’ on the occasion of Vijaya Dashami along with 150 security staff and commandos at his residence here today in presence of Mrs. Anjaliben Rupani and others. He extended Vijaya Dashami greetings to the security staff. Elucidating the significance of shastra puja for safety and security of the people, he said the puja is part of long tradition to celebrate victory of truth over untruth, victory of dharma over adharma and t...Read More

Ahmedabad, 13 October 2013 Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi performed Shashtra Puja (Worship of weapons) today at his home in the presence of police and security personnel on the occasion of Vijaya Dashmi. He called upon the security personnel to imbibe the significance of the worship of weapon as preaches by the age-old tradition. Mr. Modi, like every year, worshiped the weapons such as sword, bows and arrows etc which received as gift during public prog...Read More

Ahmedabad, 24 October 2012 Presented here are the pictures and a video of Ravan dahan 2012 on the occasion of Dussera in Amdavad, Gujarat. Read More

Amdavad, 6 October, 2011 Gujarat's most celebrated Navratri festival is over. This year there were only 8 nights in Navratri. Today is Dussera, people have started forming queues to buy fafda, jalebi, chola fali and chantni at almost every stall and shope where it is available. The next will be a Diwali season, that too this month only(how happening is the moth of October is this year). Following is the schedule of Diwali 2011. -Dhan Teras 24 October -Kali Chaudash 25 O...Read More