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Dussehra In Pictures: Here’s How India Is Celebrating Victory Of Good Over Evil
Happy Dussehra!
11 Oct 2016, 08:23 PM IST 
Dussehra is the festival that marks the victory of good over evil and is celebrated by people across the country with a lot of fervour. The festival is celebrated by Hindus across India and Nepal and involves burning huge effigies of Ravana across the country. According to mythology, Rama killed Ravana, the king of Lanka on this day.
People celebrate Vijayadashami too, on this day. Goddess Durga is believed to have attained victory over the demon Mahishasura after fighting him for 10 days and nine nights.
PM Narendra Modi with the actors at the Aishbagh Ramlila ground. (Source: ANI)
An effigy of demon king Ravana being set on fire during the Dusshera celebrations of Shri Dharmic Leela Committee at Red Fort ground in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Source: PTI)
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Congress President Sonia Gandhi performs ‘Aarti’ of artists enacting Lord Ram and Laxman during Dussehra celebrations of Shri Dharmic Leela Committee at Red Fort in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Photographer: Subhav Shukla/PTI)
Workers busy in making effigies of demon king Ravana ahead of the Dussehra festival in Bhopal on Sunday (Source: PTI)
Workers busy in making effigies of demon king Ravana ahead of the Dussehra festival in Ajmer (Source: PTI)
An effigy representing Pakistan erected with the effigies of Ravana, Meghnad and Kumbkarana on the eve of Dussehra celebrations in Patiala (Source: PTI)
Karnataka CM offers flower petals on Maharaja Yaduveera Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar riding an elephant in a procession during the Dussehra celebrations at the Mysuru Palace in Mysuru on Tuesday. (Source: PTI)
Labourers work on the head of an effigy with portraits of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed on it. (Source: PTI)
Bollywood Actress Kajol Devgn during the celebration of North Bombay Sarbojanin Durga Puja Samiti in Mumbai on Monday (Source: PTI)
Women participate in Sindur Khela at a puja pandal on the last day of Durga puja at Chittaranjan Park in New Delhi on Tuesday (Source: PTI)
Hindu devotees immersing an idol of Goddess Durga in River Ganga at the end of Puja festival in Kolkata on Tuesday (Source: PTI)
Devotees immersing the idol of Goddess Durga in a makeshift pond of Ulsoor Lake at the end of Puja festival in Bengaluru on Tuesaday. (Source: PTI)