Navarati is a Hindu festival that spans nine nights and ten days, and it is celebrated every year in autumn. It is observed for various reasons, and it is celebrated differently in several parts of the Indian cultural sphere. Celebrations during the holiday include stage decorations, telling of the legend of the festival, enacting the tale, and scintillating of the scriptures of Hinduism.
The nine days are also a primary crop season cultural event, such as design competition and staging of pandals, which is a shelter, a family visit to these pandals, and community celebration of traditional and folk dances of Hindu culture. The festival also begins the preparation for one of the most important and widely celebrated holidays, Diwali, the festival of lights. The word Navaratri means 'nine nights' in Sanskrit, Nava, meaning nights. The festival is also associated with the victory of good over evil.