We have received pictures from Patna, Liverpool in United Kingdom, Melbourne in Australia and Chicago in USA, where the Bihari community celebrated the evening ‘arghya’ on the penultimate day of the Chhath festival with full enthusiasm, today. Normally close friends and relatives gather together to celebrate and pray together but this year fewer people could visit each other. In UK the community got together on Zoom platform to meet and greet each other.
LIVERPOOL (UK)
CHICAGO (USA)
Also see: नहाये खाये के साथ आज छठ महापर्व का शुभारम्भ; देखें छठ पर यह विशेष फिल्म
MELBOURNE
PATNA
The local authorities had ensured proper arrangements at the ghats like past years but the overall participation was subdued due to covid fears. A large number of people preferred to do the prayers from their own residence terraces and other locations in Patna.
Video of the evening arghya in Patna
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar offering the evening ‘arghya’ in Patna
Photos and videos courtesy Shivani Anand Shahi and Sanjeev Shahi in Chicago; Amit Sinha in Melbourne, Kalawati Mishra in Liverpool; and Sumita Sahi in Patna
– globalbihari bureau
