In photos | Durga Puja pandals cleared the path to a festive Navaratri

People throughout India are celebrating Durga Puja through the Navaratri season. The occasion is well known for 10 days. This 12 months, it’s celebrated upto Thursday, October 2, 2025. For generations, Durga Puja has been greater than a competition.

People are showcasing the festive environment by celebrating their jubilant temper within the type of creatively made pandals. There are some distinctive pandals made out of wooden, metallic, coconut fibre, plastic, and so on. The temper is energetic not simply in West Bengal, however throughout the nation. Some of 2025’s Puja pandals spanned themes starting from meals adulteration to acid assault victims. Workers within the pandals come from districts throughout West Bengal to present form to the themed extravagant paintings that deliver the Durga Pooja to life in different states.

Even intercourse employees of Kolkata performed the thirteenth version of their very own Durga Pooja combating social stigma and displaying resilience. With Kolkata dealing with incessant rains, some Durga Pooja pandals have been flooded, leaving organisers to restore the damages. 

Take a take a look at photos from everywhere in the nation:

Photo: DEBASISH BHADURI

Kolkata: Durga pooja paintings displayed at a south Kolkata pandal in Haridevpur 41 Pally. People in Kolkata have created a number of grand pandals throughout town.

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Kolkata: A employee decorates a pandal with used plastic bottles on the theme of ‘surroundings’.

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Prayagraj: An illuminated view of a pandal themed on “Sheesh Mahal” (Palace of Mirrors), through the ‘Durga Puja’ competition.

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Guwahati: A devotee affords prayers to Goddess Durga.

Photo: Okay.R. Deepak

Visakhapatnam: Devotees performing puja in Old Town.

Photo: BISWARANJAN ROUT

Bhubaneswar: Crowd gathers close to an enormous puja pandal to witness the Durga Pooja festivities.

Photo: DEBASISH BHADURI

Kolkata: Dakshindari youths portrayed acid assault survivors as their Durga puja theme for 2025.

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Bhubaneswar: An illuminated view of the Saheed Nagar pandal.

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Puri: Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has created sand artwork for staff India’s victory in Asia Cup closing with goddess Durga idol at Puri Beach.

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Bhubaneswar: People’s inventive pursuits are seen at an impressive pandal.

Photo: KVS Giri

Vijayawada: The work that goes in, forward of Dasara competition. Artists need to create a number of idols for the Navaratri season.

Photo: H.S. Manjunath

Mangaluru: An artist making the idol for Durga Pujja Samithi of Bengali Association. 

Photo: M. Periasamy

Coimbatore: Idol makers from Kolkata deliver alive Goddess Durga.

Photo: V. Raju

Visakhapatnam: An artist busy giving closing touches to the idol of Goddess Durga at Kancharapalem.

Photo: Ragu R

Chennai: Durga idol artists work in T. Nagar, on the Thakkar Bapa Vidyalaya.

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Nagpur: Devotees carry an idol of Goddess Durga through the Navratri competition celebration.

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Ranchi: An illuminated view of a giant pandal exhibits the jubilant temper in different cities additionally.

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Kolkata: A priest prepares to hope in entrance of an idol of the goddess Durga positioned on an altar.

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Kolkata: A view of a pandal primarily based on the theme of “Operation Sindoor”.

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Kolkata: A view of Simla Byayam Samity’s Durga Puja pandal on the event of Maha Shasti.

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Kolkata: People go to the Kashi Bose Lane pandal themed on ‘Pakdondi’.

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Nadia: A view of a pandal themed on Kedarnath temple throughout ‘Durga Puja’ competition, in Nadia, West Bengal.

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Kolkata: People go to a neighborhood pandal themed on ‘Old Calcutta’.

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Kolkata: An idol of Goddess Durga put in at a neighborhood puja pandal.

Published – September 30, 2025 03:37 pm IST