Navratri 2023 will include around 700 handicapped dancers at Ahme's Divyang Mahotsav's Garba Fest

 Navratri 2023 will include around 700 handicapped dancers at Ahme's Divyang Mahotsav's Garba Fest

While Navratri, the Adishakti holiday, is being observed with the nation's customary fervor and devotion, the Divyang Navratri Mahotsav in Ahmedabad has organized Garba Fest to inspire the handicapped. The celebration has been a yearly custom over the last six years.

At this ceremony, more than 700 elderly, young, and crippled individuals danced Garba as a gesture of homage to Aadyashakti Amba.

The Divyang Garba Mahotsav's organizer, Vipulbhai, told ANI, "About ten years ago, I was playing Garba with my friends at the field when I saw a crippled guy at the location. After being affected by him, I made the decision to plan a Garba for handicapped individuals that same day. Six years have passed, and counting. Around 700 individuals with disabilities from Gujarat and nearby came together to play Garba today.

The attendees of this unique Garba celebration praised the idea in interviews with ANI.

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"The initiative deserves praise. We have been attending and taking part in the festivities at this Garba, which Vipul Bhai has been hosting for the last six years. We are not feeling left out of this. We love the Garba every year and have met a lot of new acquaintances. Many people believe that we can't play Garba because we are wheelchair-bound. But that's not how the event's organizer sees it. He conducts the proceedings as if he were one of us. We have the chance to dress up for Navratri at the event. We get to interact with people while wearing traditional attire, a participant told ANI.

Devotees worship Maa Durga in her nine forms during the course of the nine-day Navratri celebration to win her blessings. Each day of Navratri is associated with a certain goddess manifestation. During these nine days, people observe ritualistic fasts, read shlokas devoted to each goddess, wear new attire, give bhog, and clean their houses.

They beseech the goddess for her favor so that they may have successful, joyful, and fulfilling lives. Devotees fast and give prayers to Goddess Durga during the course of the next nine days.

The celebration of Navratri celebrates the victory of good over evil and the thwarting of the wicked Mahishasura. The tenth day of Sharad Navratri is celebrated as Vijaya Dashami or Dussehra. In North India, notably in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Gujarat, and Madhya Pradesh, Ramlila is widely organized during Navratri. The story of Lord Ram's victory over Ravana is performed at the Ramlila.