Durga Puja in Kolkata
The preparations of Durga puja festival starts when the rainy season is about to bid good bye and the black clouds still keep floating in the blue sky. Everyone irrespective of caste, creed and religion paying no heed to affluence or sheer poverty begin to count the days when the mother would come and fill the days packed with boredom and daily strife with endless mirth and frolic.
Those who work in the govt. sectors or semi government sectors, those who work in private sectors, those who toil hard to meet the expenses of their livelihood begin planning what would be the puja budget. It is the time to decorate their homes with different hues, don good clothes and make the little children happy with gifts of new garments, furbishing the home with renewed vitality.
Bengal is flooded with exceptional mirth and glee. There is the frown of cyclone and flood yet the Bengalis never step back, come back with full stride to combat the odds. It is the time not to brood over anything. It is the time to be drifted in the wave of eternal pleasure. Comes Mahalaya with the Mahisaurmardini, the baritone voice of Birendrakrisna Bhadra fills the air with the hymns of Devi Durga. People throng in the ghats of the rivers to pay homage to their ancestors in the form of Tarpan.
The festivity begins when the dhaks are beaten in different pandals. If we track back we find that the first Durga puja of the Bengali took place in the district of Nadia in the year 1606. Actually in those by gone days the pujas were limited in the families who were exceedingly well off. The puja that is called the oldest one was the puja of the Sabarna Chowdhury family of Barisha in Kolkata in the year 1610. The initial community puja was held in 1910 in an old locality of the then Calcutta.
The preparations of Durga puja festival starts when the rainy season is about to bid good bye and the black clouds still keep floating in the blue sky. Everyone irrespective of caste, creed and religion paying no heed to affluence or sheer poverty begin to count the days when the mother would come and fill the days packed with boredom and daily strife with endless mirth and frolic.
Those who work in the govt. sectors or semi government sectors, those who work in private sectors, those who toil hard to meet the expenses of their livelihood begin planning what would be the puja budget. It is the time to decorate their homes with different hues, don good clothes and make the little children happy with gifts of new garments, furbishing the home with renewed vitality.
Bengal is flooded with exceptional mirth and glee. There is the frown of cyclone and flood yet the Bengalis never step back, come back with full stride to combat the odds. It is the time not to brood over anything. It is the time to be drifted in the wave of eternal pleasure. Comes Mahalaya with the Mahisaurmardini, the baritone voice of Birendrakrisna Bhadra fills the air with the hymns of Devi Durga. People throng in the ghats of the rivers to pay homage to their ancestors in the form of Tarpan.
The festivity begins when the dhaks are beaten in different pandals. If we track back we find that the first Durga puja of the Bengali took place in the district of Nadia in the year 1606. Actually in those by gone days the pujas were limited in the families who were exceedingly well off. The puja that is called the oldest one was the puja of the Sabarna Chowdhury family of Barisha in Kolkata in the year 1610. The initial community puja was held in 1910 in an old locality of the then Calcutta.
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