Indian Army celebrates Navratri festival with garba performance

On occasion of Navaratri all around country, people are enjoying tritional food, music and dance. On Monday, Union Minister Jitendra Singh shared a video on his Twitter handle of Indian soldiers playing Garba in sub-zero degree temperatures. Referring to soldiers, in his tweet, Jitendra Singh said declared he was proud of Indian Army and ir spirit is what makes India invincible.

'Invincible India'

In a similar occurrence earlier, business tycoon Anand Mahindra, took to Twitter on October 6, where he shared a video of Indian Army soldiers doing Garba to a Gujarati song. While video was months old, he extended salutations to army soldiers doing Garba. " need to ask how Josh is!" he said sharing video.

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On Friday, people in Surat began celebrating Navratri by performing Garba Raas in a unique way — by wearing a mask of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Similarly, ar video surfaced this Navratri that showed a group of people performing Garba in middle of  Ahmedab airport at 3 am. What was unique about it was passengers as well as  airport staff were seen joining in on fun and performing Garba.

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What is Navratri?

Navratri, which means ‘Nine-nights’ in Sanskrit, is a nine-day festival that is famous in various parts of India and is celebrated by Hindus all over country. It is celebrated with great energy and enthusiasm and is a colourful festival in which nine forms of Goddess Durga are worshipped.

re are four s of Navratri that take place in a year. However, out of se four Navratris in a year, only two- namely Chaitra Navratri and Shar Navratri are celebrated widely. People in different parts of country celebrate this festival according to ir customs. festival, apart from its energetic celebrations, is also famous for fasts that people observe as a measure of good luck and health.

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