IN PHOTOS | India celebrates Navratri festival season with pomp and piety

The 9-day-long festival of Navratri is celebrated in a wide range of ways across the country.

The 9-day-long festival of Navratri is celebrated in a wide range of ways across the country. IN PIC: A devotee dressed up as a deity for the Kulasekarapattinam Mutharamman Temple festival in Tirunelveli. (Photo | V Karthikalagu) 

Women take selfies as they participate in Sindoor Khela on Vijayadashami, the last day of the Durga Puja festival celebrations, in Delhi. (Photo | Parveen Negi)

Folk artistes perform during the Dasara procession in Mysuru. (Photo | Udayshankar S)

Keral Banga Samskriti Sangha Members perform Dhunuchi Dance as part of the Durga Puja at Lions Hall in Kochi. (Photo | A Sanesh)

Women apply vermillion on each other as they participate in Sindoor Khela on Vijayadashami, in Hyderabad. (Photo | Vinay Madapu)

Devotees in Delhi immerse an idol of Goddess Durga on Vijayadashami marking the end of the 5-day festivities of Durga Puja. (Photo | Parveen Negi)

People throng the Koyambedu market, in Chennai ahead of Ayudha Puja. (Photo | Martin Louis)

Immersion of Durga idols at Hussainsagar lake on the last day of Durga Puja in Hyderabad. (Photo | Vinay Madapu)

Durga Puja celebrations at Bihar Chaupal, Chetpet, in Chennai. (Photo | Allen Egenuse J)

A child being initiated into the world of letters as part of the 'Vidyarambham' ceremony on the occasion of Vijayadashami in Kozhikode. (Photo | E Gokul)