{"id":1670,"date":"2014-10-01T11:55:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T11:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fnp.com\/blog\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2024-12-19T18:51:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T13:21:27","slug":"found-new-meaning-dusshera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fnp.com\/blog\/found-new-meaning-dusshera","title":{"rendered":"I Found A New Meaning Of Dusshera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fnp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Dusshera-4oct-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1254\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.fnp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Dusshera-4oct-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Dusshera in India\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>In school we used to study that Dusshera means &#8216;Light over darkness&#8217;, &#8216;Good over evil&#8217;, &#8216;Hope over despair&#8217; and &#8216;Knowledge over Ignorance&#8217;<\/b> and so many stories and beliefs to go with it. At that time, I could never understand the significance of this festival, other than visiting cheerful fairs, eating delicious food and riding on swings.<\/p>\n<p>When I was around 10 years old, I met a girl of almost my age, who was the daughter of my new maid. <b>Though she looked like one of us, but she was completely different.<\/b> She lived in a small shack, never visited a school, never ever seen a movie, never worn a new cloth, had so many bruises here and there and the list of our differences got lengthy as we became friends.<\/p>\n<p>One day, I asked her that why she does not go to school and she simply replied that <b>her father takes away all the money from her mother, beats both of them and does not allow her to go to school.<\/b> Feeling her pain, I decided to help her and went straightaway to my parents and shared everything with them.<\/p>\n<p>My parents did whatever they could for both of them and got my friend admitted in a school. After her school&#8217;s first day, she came to me and hugged me with tears in her eyes. She was happy and so was her mother. It was that day when <b>I actually understood the true meaning of Dusshera. Dusshera is not only to kill the evil, it is to identify the good in you and let it come out for others.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In school we used to study that Dusshera means &#8216;Light over darkness&#8217;, &#8216;Good over evil&#8217;, &#8216;Hope over despair&#8217; and &#8216;Knowledge over Ignorance&#8217; and so many stories and beliefs to go with it. At that time, I could never understand the significance of this festival, other than visiting cheerful fairs, eating delicious food and riding on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dusshera"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I Found A New Meaning Of Dusshera | FNP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Reflect on the deeper significance of Dusshera with Ferns N Petals, exploring themes of good over evil and personal growth during this festive season.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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