A friend was kind enough to invite me and another American to his community in Salt Lake to see the last day of Durga Puja, Doishumi, from a more local perspective. It was incredible. Dressed in sari, my friend and I arrived around 5pm, hung around, and then watched as drumming and dancing started and we were pulled into the crowd to dance and get our faces painted with the red shindur. After three or four hours of the drumming and dancing, we watched as the community said good-bye to their Durga and loaded it up to go to the immersion ceremony. Another friend drove us to the river, and we watched as each community carried their idol to the river, turned it around (can't remember how many times) and then immersed it into the sacred Ganga River, saying good-bye until next year.
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