Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Sindoor Khela, the ritual that marks the end of Durga Puja celebrations by the Bengali community, will be dedicated to Operation Sindoor this year at the Dakshineshwar Kalibari Son Kolar Road area in the city.

Meeta Wadhwa from the Kalibari has told Free Press that the Operation Sindoor has a direct connection with the Sindoor Khela.

“We Bengalis believe that Maa Durga comes to the place of her parents during Durga Puja and when we bid farewell to her, along with her children, we smear her and also each other with Sindoor, signifying Suhag” she says.

The perpetrators of the terror attack in Pahalgam had done just the opposite. They had wiped the Sindoor off newly-wed women. They had killed their husbands before their own eyes. Operation Sindoor was meant to ave

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