TEAM HERALD
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MARGAO: The traditional sontrio (umbrella) festival was celebrated with great pomp and religious fervour at Cuncolim on Sunday.
Thousands of people from all walks of life participated in the festival as the palanquin of the deity Shree Shantadurga Kunkallikarin was taken from Fatorpa temple to Cuncolim on Sunday afternoon.
The deity was taken from the Shree Shantaduraga Kunkallikarin Temple at Fatorpa at around Sunday noon after a religious ceremony. Devotees smeared gulal on each other marking the celebrations, while the 12 colourful umbrellas danced to the beats of drum, as the procession of the deity wend its way to Cuncolim from Fatorpa.
President of Shree Shantadurga Kunkallikarin Temple, Shivaji Desai said the umbrella festival is an annual event wherein the deity is taken from the Fatorpa temple to her original place in Cuncolim. The festival symbolizes communal harmony and amity as people from all sections of society, irrespective of caste and creed, take up in the celebrations.
