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DUSSEHRA ESSAY 3 (200 WORDS) 
Dussehra is a most important Hindu festival. It values a lot to the people to Hindu religion. 
This festival is of great religious and cultural significance. People celebrate this festival with 
big enthusiasm and beliefs. This festival indicates the victory of goodness over badness 
mean triumph of truth over evil power. People celebrate this festival by following lots of 
rituals and pooja ceremony. Religious people and devotees keep fast for the whole day. 
Some people keep fast to only first and last day (9th day) however some people keep fast for 
all nine days and worship Goddess Durga to get blessings and power. On the tenth day 
people celebrate Dussehra in the happiness of victory of Lord Rama over the demon king, 

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Ravana. The festival of Dussehra falls in the month of last September or October every year 
two weeks before the festival of Diwali. 
There are different customs and traditions of celebrating Dussehra festival in various 
regions of the country. Somewhere it is celebrated for whole ten days and priests of the 
temple recites mantras and stories from the Ramayana in front of the big crowed of the 
devotees. Somewhere a big fair of Ram Lila is staged for several days or a month. 
DUSSEHRA ESSAY 4 (250 WORDS) 
Dussehra is one of the most significant festivals of the Hindu religion. It is a ten days long 
festival celebrated all through the country by the Hindu people with great enthusiasm. 
First nine days involves the worship of goddess Durga that‟s why called as Navratra 
festival. On the tenth day people celebrate Navratra by burning the cartoon of the demon 
king, Ravana. The festival of Dussehra falls in the month of September or October just two 
or three weeks before the festival of Diwali. This festival is celebrated by worshipping the 
Hindu Goddess Durga. Devotees of the Lord Rama and Durga keep fast for the first and 
last day or whole nine days and worship the Goddess Durga. Nine days or Navratra is also 
known as Durga puja when goddess Durga is worshipped in her nine forms. 
People celebrate Dussehra festival means tenth day as Vijay Dashmi by organising a big 
fair or Ram-Lila where they show the dramatic life history of the Lord Rama. The Ram-Lila 
fair indicates the legends behind celebrating the Vijay Dashmi which are Lord Rama and 
Ravana. It shows the whole history of kidnapping of Seeta, victory of Rama and defeat and 
kill of demon king, Ravana and his son, Meghnath and brother, Kumbhkaran. Real people 
play the role of Rama, Lakshman, Seeta, and Hanuman however they make the paper 
statue of Ravana, Meghnath and Kumbhkaran. In the end, they burn all the three statues 
of Ravana, Meghnath and Kumbhkaran to show the victory of Lord Rama and killing of 
Ravana with the sound of fire-crackers.