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The Waking That Was Out of Season

She was asleep, and it was the wrong time of year. He woke her anyway.

The waking that was out of season

Durga's season is spring.

That is not a detail. Her worship belongs to Chaitra, and the spring Navratri is still there and still kept. All that Bengal does in autumn is, strictly speaking, at the wrong time of year.

There is a reason, and it is a good one.

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