Dussehra and Durga Puja (Celebrate Your Festival Handbook)

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Item Code: NAE914
Publisher: Hechhette Book Publishing India Pvt. Ltd
Language: English
Edition: 2011
ISBN: 9789350093290
Pages: 144
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 7.0 inch X 5.0 inch
Weight 170 gm
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About the Book

Bring on the celebrations - it’s Durga Puja and Dussehra time! Ten whole days for fun and festivals, and for thanking the gods and goddesses for their blessings. From fasting to feasting, from Rama dramas to burning Ravanas, from exchanging leaves to exchanging gifts, different people in different parts of the country celebrate these festivals in all kinds of ways, and you can know all about it!

This book brings you wonderful stories about Dussehra and Durga Puja… Can you solve the case of a stolen idol? Or imagine a private mother goddess? Or figure out how festivals can help you be the most awesome person you can be? Or work out ways to fight a monster you can’t see, and win? It’s all h ere!

So why wait to celebrate? Open up the boxes of sweets, put your best clothes on, and tuck into this super collection of stories, folktales, myths, legends and activities.

 

Contents

 

  Super Dussehra and Durga Puja Stories I
1 A Boy and a Lake 3
2 Tuli's Private Mother Goddess 17
3 The Best Hanuman 28
4 The Eight Extraordinary Brothers 39
5 The Idol of Arawal 45
6 The Night of the Eighth Day 62
7 Nine Times Night 73
8 A King's Repentance 85
  All About Dussehra and Durga Puja 89
1 Dussehra Delights! 90
2 Durga Puja: The Asura Dies at the Hands of the Goddess! 92
3 The Daughter Durga Comes Home 94
4 The Agnyatvas of the Pandavas 96
5 Celebrating Dussehra & Durga Puja 97
6 Getting to Know the Goddess 102
7 Mahalaya 105
8 The Nine Forms of the Goddess 107
  Fun Festival Activities III
  Make a Rangoli  
  Panchamrutam  
  Match It If You Can  
  Balloon Flower Basket  
  Quick Coconut Balls  
  Make Snap-Up Kheer  
  Make a Junk Ravana  
  Sparkle Painting  
  Your Own Gods  
  Ravana Mask  
  Puffy Paint Gift Box  
  Festival Quotient  
  Marble Rolling Wrapping Paper  
  Crumble Wrap  
  State It Quiz  
  Cereal Box Gift Bag  
  Flower Centerpiece  
  Deco Plates  
  Wish-list Prayer and Thank-you List  
  Be the Change  
  Festivals Rock! Diary 131
  Notes on the Contributors 136

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