By Hemang Palan

X: @hemang_palan

One of India’s most celebrated festivals, Navratri is marked by nine nights of devotion to Goddess Durga.  This festival encourages devotees to transcend negative traits like lust, anger, and greed, and to cultivate qualities like balance, wisdom, compassion, and devotion through fasting, prayer, and community celebrations.

The celebratory fervour and enthusiasm of recently concluded Navratri festival swept across various housing societies of Mumbai city; with vibrant festivities, devotional melodies, and energetic garba dances lighting up the beautifully decorated ‘pandals’ in the suburbs.

And, among the most awaited events this season was the ‘atmosphere garba festival’ where tradition met grandeur in a spectacular display of arts and culture. The residents of Mulund-based ‘atmosphere housing society’ came together to celebrate with deity’s ‘puja’ during the day time, and vibrant dandiya and garba performances at night during the festival. 

‘atmosphere housing society’ became a cultural hotspot during Navratri, with garba nights turning into multi-coloured showcases of divine music, traditional attire, and community spirit. The celebrations and revelries at ‘atmosphere’ was a blessed reminder of how festivals like Navratri not only honour age-old traditions, but also unite people across communities.

Ashish Shah, Tejas Sanghvi, Raj Kulkarni, Amruta Kulkarni, and their cultural team of 'atmosphere phase 1' residents worked very hard together to make the recently concluded Navratri festival a grand and successful divine event.

And, phase 2 residents of ‘atmosphere' : Jayesh Kotak, Sameer Pathare, Kalpesh Parmar and Stephen Nadar, and their cultural team were in charge of grand and wonderful Navratri celebrations of 'O2 Wing'.