Friday, December 18, 2009

Durga Puja and the Bengalis


There is the frown of cyclone, the destruction of flood; the wink of recession in every corner of the globe yet Durga puja is always welcome in Bengal. There is poverty, there is humiliation, there is uncertainty yet the Durga puja comes every year in the gloomy corners of west Bengal and makes the people vibrant with mirth and glee. The people of Bengal wait with expectant eyes casting in the horizon when the time would come, the air would be filled with the smell of seuli and ponds would be colorful with the lotuses.

The Durga puja of four day gala celebrations in the month of autumn is celebrated with much enthusiasm in every corner of Bengal. The Bengalis for the four days are rich in all respect. There is the arrangement of dainty dishes in every house. There is new dress on every body whether young or old. There is no whip of poverty, no scourge of ill feelings. Bengalis for the four days are emperors in all respect.

Bengalis are romantic, people of other states opine. Yes there is the color of romanticism in all corners. In the decoration of pandals, in the illuminations of homes and streets, there is galore of enthusiasm at every aspect. The Bengalis gather together in new dress to savor the essence of the best of romanticism in every aspect round the clock for four consecutive days.

People forgetting he barriers of age and social strata flock together in the puja pandals to celebrate the days. It is the time of social get together as well as the reunion at home when the dear ones come back home after a long stay in the foreign lands to have the warmth of their own hearth. The Bengalis are rich for those four days  in all respect.


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