Durga’s Blessing

ISBN-978-93-6175-936-9

The festival of Navratri and the goddess Durga are the subjects of the writings and poems that comprise the book “Durga’s Blessing”. It contains the writing of many authors, their first-hand narratives, and informed opinion on the festival and the goddess. Some of the contents of the anthology are poems and strips containing biographies of romantic poets, brief information about the BPF and the festival, and descriptions of the festival’s traditions. It also stresses what so many other currents of Western culture obscure: reverence for women. The writings are worshipful of the deity Durga and detail how the deity in a women’s life gives strength, protection, and grace.