ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to gain a critical understanding of how religion, religious identities and practices are negotiated, appropriated and reworked in their relationship with digital technologies. It focuses on the WhatsApp group but also took into account other online platforms of Prantic like its webpage, blog, newsletter, Twitter and Facebook pages. The participants of the WhatsApp group mostly belong to the Bengali Hindu community living in the residential locality of Indirapuram, Delhi-National Capital Region, and who are members of Prantic. The message basically commented on how the technology of radio and radio broadcasting had brought about a change in the manner Durga Puja is celebrated in contemporary Bengal. The instantaneous sharing of messages, videos and photographs contributes to create the liveness of the Durga Puja online. Digital technologies have facilitated its users to transcend the temporal, spatial and material boundaries and practice religion.
