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Let’s Celebrate Navratri! Posted by Rachael on Oct 3, 2016

नवरात्रि की बहुत शुभकामनाएँ (Many good wishes on Navratri)! Hindu communities in South Asia and beyond are now celebrating Navratri, a festival whose name is made up of two parts: नव: A Sanskrit prefix meaning “nine” (in Hindi: नौ) रात्रि: A Sanskrit word meaning “night” (in Hindi: रात, fem. noun) This is an extremely apt…

Navratri Posted by Nitin Kumar on Sep 30, 2011

First of all, I would like to wish our Hindi page community, a very happy Navratri! Many of them would be unaware of Navratri for sure. Let me show you everything about Navratri. ‘Nav’ means ‘nine’ and ‘ratri’ means ‘night’. Thus, ‘Navratri’ means ‘nine nights’. There are many legends attached to the conception of Navratri…