Festive season debates are nothing new in India, but this year’s Navratri-Durga Puja season has set social media on fire. The controversy began When Bhopal SDM Divya Patel announced, “Navratri will begin from tomorrow. In view of this, the sale of meat, fish and eggs has been banned in the city from September 22 to October 2, 2025.” The tweet was later deleted but a screenshot of the tweet has been going viral.

While such bans are common in Gujarat and other regions observing Navratri with strict vegetarianism, the reaction from Bengal added an unexpected twist.

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A Bengali voice and her biryani pride

Dr. Aratrika Ganguly, a Bengali user on X, retweeted the news with a cultural assertion:

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