People make their homes/automobiles spotlessly clean and decorate them with flowers and leaves. Saraswati Puja is being celebrated in many households in this town known for its excellence in education. Saraswati is a Hindu Goddess of knowledge, music, arts, wisdom, and learning. Not to forget the other forms of Shakti, deities Mariamman and Veyiluganthamman are being revered all through the year in this town. All the three forms of Goddess Shakti are revered in the nine nights of Navaratri. It usually falls in the Tamil month of Puraṭṭāsi. Vijayadashami is being celebrated uniquely in the town of Virudhunagar. The festival is all about the good winning over the evil accompanied by food, plays, community gathering, recitation of scriptures, etc., Vijayadasami celebrations include processions that carry statues of Durga/Parvati, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Ganesha, and Kartikeya, accompanied by music and chants. During the first three nights, Durga/Parvati is revered, then Lakshmi on the fourth, fifth and sixth nights, and finally Saraswati until the ninth night. In the Navaratri festival, the Goddess is worshipped in three forms. Ramlila could be seen in various performance arts in places like Bali, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Thailand too. Known as Dusshera in the northern part of India, the ten-day festival ends with Ramlila(Dramatic folk re-enactment of the life of Lord Rama according to the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana). After the enactment of the legendary war between Good and Evil, the Ramlila celebrations climax in the Dussehra night festivities where the giant grotesque effigies of Evil such as of demon Ravana are burnt, typically with fireworks. Durga Puja as it is called in eastern and northeastern parts of India ends with goddess Durga killing the shape-shifting, deceptive and powerful buffalo demon Mahishasura. The festival itself is being observed for different reasons and celebrated in different ways across the world. It is observed on the tenth day of the Hindu calendar month of Ashvin, which typically falls in the Gregorian months of September or October. Vijayadashami is a Hindu festival celebrated at the end of Navratri every year.
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