{"id":24972,"date":"2013-10-09T18:20:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T12:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bharatestates.com\/blog\/?p=24972"},"modified":"2020-06-15T03:36:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T22:06:43","slug":"celebrating-navratri-housing-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bharatestates.com\/blog\/celebrating-navratri-housing-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Navratri in your Housing Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Navratri-in-housing-soc\"In India normally celebrating religious festival means people coming together, uniting with their family and friends to rejoice the occasion. Festival is a grand event to socialize and bond with people around you. In todays fast pace and busy life, people have no time to spend some quality time or enjoy. In such situations, festivals act as a break from the hectic schedule. Celebrating festivals in housing society is fun and is a better opportunity to know and build good relations with your neighbors and society members. Navratri<\/a> is one such event that is celebrated on a grand scale in India.Navratri is a festival devoted to the Goddess of strength and prosperity, Goddess Durga. The festivity continues for 9 days. During these 9 days devotees, worship the different forms of Goddess, go to temples, prepare prasad, perform aarti and enjoy the occasion with traditional events. Instead of organizing individual occasions at your home, you can come together as a community and celebrate the festival lavishly.If you are planning to arrange an event for Navratri in your housing society then here are few ideas that will make your celebration more exciting and enjoyable:<\/em>Proper planning:<\/strong>First and foremost thing to do before planning out for the event is ask for the permission from the society secretary or association for organizing the event, ask the members who are interested to volunteer and participate in the events.Delegate the responsibilities among the members:<\/strong>Once the plan gets verified, you can allocate the work among the different members of the society. First you may require volunteers to gather fund from the society members for managing the event. Appoint a team who will be responsible for arranging the pandal<\/a> and bringing the goddess idol. Assign another team who will take care of decoration like arranging flowers, lighting, rangoli etc. You will also need volunteers who will look after the pandal during night as the idol may be ornamented with expensive jewelry.Events for Navratri:<\/strong>Living in housing society allows you to know and enjoy the different cultures and traditions. A housing society is actually a mini India where you will find South-Indians, Maharashtrians, Gujratis, Bengalis and people of different states, all living together in one society, hence you get an opportunity to explore celebrations of each culture. On nine nights you can organize nine different programs of different traditions.<\/p>\n