Durga Puja 2025

Like all Indian festivals, feasting is an essential part of Durga Puja. From roll shops at every corner of the road to the quintessential puchka, food is an extremely important part of the pujo season.

From kosha mangsho to Kolkata biryani, here is your complete guide to the best non-veg food to try during Durga Puja 2025.

So what should you be eating during Durga Puja? There is no definite answer, because technically we eat just about everything, but then again there are a few things that become almost imperative.

From rosogolla and chhena payesh offered to the goddess as symbols of purity to narkel naru and pati shapta lovingly prepared at home, mishti during Puja symbolises devotion, prosperity, and togetherness.

In North India, effigies of Ravana are burnt to mark Lord Rama's triumph, a ritual also believed to represent the destruction of negativity within us.