A Correspondent :
Members of Hindu community today celebrated their Saraswati (the goddess of learning) Puja in the city by offering worships to Debi seeking her blessings for knowledge and wisdom. Different religious, professional and social-cultural organizations organized Bani Archana, discussion meetings, distribution of Prashads, cultural functions and illuminations at temples, educational institutions and other makeshift places for worshipping the goddess.
Chittagong Metropolitan and District police control room sources and Hindu community leaders told BSS that the festival was celebrated in the city and district in a peaceful manner.A good number of Hindu religious and cultural organizations organized Bani Archana functions in the city and district throughout the day.
On the occasion of Saraswati, a large number of devotees including female students converged at the J M Sen Hall premises, the traditional venue of different religious functions of the Hindu community, and offered worships to Debi Saraswati seeking her blessing for knowledge. Besides, Bani Archanas were held at Chittagong University, City University College, Chittagong Government College, Hazi Mohammad Mohsin College and a good number of educational institutions celebrating the Saraswati Puja.
A series of programmes were held at Ramkrishna Sebasrham in the city with beginning of Puja in the morning followed by Puspanjali, distributions of Prashads and singing religious songs. During the Saraswati Puja, parents introduced the children to alphabets through ‘Hate Khori’ ceremony. The priest gives children a pen made of Kans flower and symbolic ink.
The children start their formal learning by writing on a clay pot.Other programmes include drawing competition for children, blood donation, prayers, prize distribution and cultural function.
