Durga Puja competition is incomplete with out theme-based pandals which might be conceptualised and executed months prematurely. It’s a course of that’s each exhausting in addition to rewarding.
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In Kolkata, it’s an thrilling affair, whereby on one hand there are intimate pujas which might be held inside a home with relations and a few shut mates in attendance, on the opposite, there are ‘sarbojanin‘ pujas which might be open to most of the people.
This 12 months has been no totally different. Whereas the pandemic scaled down the festivities within the final two years, Durga Puja in West Bengal — particularly within the capital metropolis of Kolkata — is again with mammoth pandals and colossal idols, every with a novel theme, show and particular grandeur.
Indian Categorical photographers captured the essence of the competition by the numerous totally different pandals, so that you can get pleasure from it nearly in case you are residing elsewhere. Have a look.
(Categorical photograph by Partha Paul)
The Kabiraj Bagan Sarbojanin Puja committee in North Kolkata has recreated the duplicate of Nazrul Mancha, the place singer KK carried out his final gig earlier this 12 months — in Could — and succumbed to a coronary heart assault.
The singer’s pictures have been displayed all over the place, together with a statue of him holding a mic and acting on a make-shift stage.
(Categorical photograph by Partha Paul)
The Durga Puja pandal in Bidhan Sarani Atlas Membership has a particular theme this 12 months, which is able to delight canine lovers. It’s devoted to pets. Apart from the lion — that’s the official mount of Goddess Durga — there are two lovely canine figures standing close to the deity’s legs.
(Categorical photograph by Partha Paul)
Additionally on show is a Mahishasura who’s using a motorbike to the occasion, and searching quite cross!
(Categorical photograph by Partha Paul)
Take a look at the idol on the Nava Brindavan Zamindar home in North Kolkata, which is designed in an ‘ek-chala‘ body with ‘daker saaj‘.
(Categorical photograph by Shashi Ghosh)
Right here is one other one: Goddess Durga idol — seen in an ek-chala body — of Pathuriaghata’s 200-year-old zamindar ‘bari‘ (home), supported and carried by way of bamboo sticks.
(Categorical photograph by Shashi Ghosh)
Here’s a {photograph} of the Durga Puja celebration of Pathuriaghata Ghosh Bari, which is often known as Khelat Ghosh Puja. Apparently, luminaries like Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay have attended Durga Puja right here, which is alleged to be some 165 years previous.
(Categorical photograph by Shashi Ghosh)
This 12 months, the Deshapriya Park Puja pandal in South Kolkata has been made to seem like rajbari. Take a look at all of the opulence.
(Categorical photograph by Partha Paul)
Some days in the past, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly was seen inaugurating a puja pandal in South Kolkata. Apparently, a short lived construction of London’s well-known Lord’s Pavilion has been arrange adjoining to the pandal.
(Categorical photograph by Partha Paul)
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