Durga Puja, Bihari
Durga Puja at Basuki Bihari North village is a ten days annual grand celebration for the worship to the Goddess Durga in Hinduism. The place of the Durga Puja is located at the campus of the Maharani Sthan in the village of the northern part of Basuki Bihari in Madhubani district of the Mithila region in Bihar, India. It is continuously celebrated every year since more than 37 years ago.
The Goddess Durga of this village is locally also called as Bihari Wali Maiyya which translates as Mother of the Bihari village.
== History ==
The formal celebration of Durga Puja started in 1987 by the villagers of the village. Initially the celebration started from a hut temple. Later a grand temple for the celebration of the Durga Puja was built by the villagers. 
In 1989, with the efforts of former state education minister cum professor Yogeshwar Jha and Munmun Singh along with the cooperation of the villagers, the Durga Puja was started by making idols of Goddess Durga and other deities in the temple. Later a cultural and social organisation called as Durga Puja Samiti was formed by the villagers to organise the grand Durga Puja celebration.  
== Description ==
On the occasion of the Durga Puja festival, every evening the women of the village flock here to light clay lamps at the campus of the temple from the first day of the installation of the Durga Puja urn known as Kalshathapna. Similarly every evening at the campus of the temple, a grand group Aarti is performed by the people of all the sections of the society during the ten days festival. 
Every day from noon to evening competitions of speeches, verses, songs, dances and essays, etc are organised among the children of the village. On the last day a ceremony of awards and consolation prizes is held in the presence of the prominent officials and scholars of the region. 
Due to the popularity of the rituals of the Durga Puja at the temple, a huge number of devotees from the region participate in the Puja to pay salutations in the faith of Goddess Durga.