Saraswati Puja, one of the main religious festivals of the Hindu community, is being celebrated at Jagannath Hall of Dhaka University on Tuesday maintaining health guidelines.
It is celebrated without any splendor due to pandemic although Dhaka University is the epicenter of this celebration in Bangladesh for a long time.
Hundreds of devotees have been visiting the puja mandap of Jagannath Hall since the morning to show their devotion to the goddess. Masks were mandatory for people entering the mandaps.
But, crowds were very simple because the department-wise puja was not arranged as the university’s dormitories is closed for a long time in the wake of the pandemic. Joy Das, a class five student, visiting puja mandap with his father said, “I have prayed to Saraswati to drive away from the covid-19 so that our school might open.”
Nibedita Ghosh, a primary school teacher, told Bangladesh post that she had come here to introduce her child to education which called “Hatekhori.” DU VC Prof. Md Akhtaruzzaman visited the puja mandap in the morning. Greeting the Hindus on the occasion of Saraswati puja he said, “Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge and wisdom in Hindu scriptures, appears on this day every year to give blessings. I hope that this universal blessing of the Goddess would inspire everyone with a generous and humane spirit.”
The students, in particular, seek the blessings of goddess Saraswati in their pursuit of knowledge, art, music and culture.
According to the Hindu faith, goddess Saraswati represents power, creativity, and inspiration and presents herself when the weather is pleasant and nature is in its full grandeur.
