People burn an effigy of Ravana on the occasion of Vijaya Dashmi festival celebration in New Delhi on Monday, 28 September 2009. Dussehra symbolises the victory of good over evil in Hindu mythology. Dasara is also known as Navaratri, as in the first nine days the Divine Mother Goddess Durga is worshipped and invoked in different manifestations of her Shakti. The 10th day is in honor of Durga Devi. The basic purpose behind this festival is to worship feminine principle of the Universe in the form of the divine mother to remind the teachings of the Taitareeya Upanishad, "Matru Devo Bhava".

Photographer: A Sarthak

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