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A Celebration Of Shakti And Life

Durga Puja is the holiday to top them all in Kolkata! It is here where he started the annual worship of Durga Puja. A group 'Bengali Cultural Society - South Sweden (BCSOFSS)' 126 based on Helsingborg has started Durgapuja since 2017. 121 In the recent past, Durga Puja celebrations and festivities were also started in Hong Kong by the Bengali diaspora.

We are talking about 500 community pandals across the length and breadth of the city, which means you can enjoy unlimited pandal hopping, eating and being at awe with varied themes of the puja pandals. Durga Puja in Kolkata has attracted the eyes of the world with the artwork at their pandals.

A splendiferous Durga idol mesmerised the pandal visitors. The divinity of Goddess Durga is believed to descend into the girl after the puja. At the end of the Durga Puja, these were immersed in River Thames, for the first time in 2006, after "the community was allowed to give a traditional send-off to the deities by London's port authorities".

Navratri means "nine nights" in Sanskrit, and on each day of the festival, nine different forms of shakti or Mother Durga are worshipped. On Shashti, the first day of the Durga Puja celebrations, a ceremony called Bodhon or Akaal Bodhan is held. This time, they are also up with a Durga Puja Special Midnight Buffet only open for night time snacking, for all our guests and patrons.

Shyamal Dhon Dutta, Solicitor of High Court who belonged to the famous Dutta family of Hathkhola, started the Durga Puja in his house. This package tour of Durga Puja Parikrama'19 includes the famous vintage Durga Pujas across the city. If everything goes as planned, the Durga Puja of Kolkata may finally get the UNESCO World Heritage status next year.

In 2019 Durga Puja their theme is "Life Line". It is at the courtyard of this house where Sri Ramkrishna Paramahansa Deb used to conduct Durga Puja. It is believed the Goddess descends to earth at the time of drawing the eyes on the idols. Travellers can put up at budget hotels in Kolkata near famous pandals.

Considered to be the mother of all celebrations, the city lights up to it's full glory during these days. Durga puja is a time for socializing with friends, family and relatives. The Westin Kolkata's all-day dining, Seasonal Tastes, will usher in its first Durga Puja with a grand Pujor Mahabhoj.

The Durga Puja was started in 1840 by Gokul Chandra Daw, father of Shib Krishna Daw. According to Hindu mythology, the goddess Durga came to earth on Mahalaya (one day before Navaratri) to kill Mahishasura. Thus, we planned to have 2 nights out and cover the Puja Pandals as listed above as much as possible.

On this day, Goddess Durga is worshipped and offered many things as she is prepared to leave. The very red-coloured grand building on Beadon Street in North Calcutta celebrates one of the oldest Durga Pujas ok Kolkata. Sri Haridev Bhattacharya was actually the devotee of Goddess Kali and Kali Puja was conducted by the family annually.

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The History And Origin Of The Durga Puja Festival

There is no better time to visit Kolkata than Durga Puja, the annual festival where the City of Joy decks up in its choicest finery and every locality or para as it is colloquially known, resembles a mini-carnival of sorts. The baro-yaari puja was brought to Kolkata in 1832 by Raja Harinath of Cossimbazar, who performed the Durga Puja at his ancestral home in Murshidabad from 1824 to 1831, notes Somendra Chandra Nandy in 'Durga Puja: A Rational Approach' published in The Statesman Festival, 1991.

If you like grand scale decorations and themes this is the place to be. College Square has been attracting devotees and visitors here especially during night time for all the lights, colour and grandeur that is visible here during the Durga Puja days.

Every year, during Durga Puja , Bengal's most celebrated festival, Kolkata's streets are buzzing with laughter, festooned with dazzling light displays and elaborate pandals with exquisite idols of goddess Durga, her children - goddesses Lakshmi, Saraswati, and gods Kartikeya, Ganesha - and Mahishasura, a demon king in Hindu mythology.

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Explore the city during Durga Puja - The annual autumnal ceremonial worship of the mother goddess, is one of the most important festivals of bengalis The idols are worshipped for five days and then carried in magnificent procession to our holy river Ganges for immersion.

Slowly soaking in the Pujo mood, she takes TravelTriangle readers on a virtual journey through the lanes of Kolkata, offering a glimpse of 5 larger than life traditional family celebrations—the best places to witness the grandeur of Kolkata Durga Puja 2019.

The board of trustees guarantees that the charm of the puja stays undiminished and a perfect euphoric atmosphere with conventional type of goddess Durga icon, inventive pandal structure delineating social causes, current occasions, legacy OR old stories sprouting with striking hues and characteristic stylistic layout.

Kolkata sees a lot of variety when it comes to these festivities - some pandals are as old as 200 years, and still going strong, one also cannot ignore the essence and attraction of the traditional bonedi pujas that are still carried on with full glory privately by a few families, some of whom were affluent and stalwarts in yesteryear.

Given the atmosphere of hatred, fear and communalism all around, we explored this theme, where the visitor will have a different mindset while entering the mandap and will come out with a different viewpoint altogether,” explains Subhojit Chakraborty, the cultural convenor of the puja, without revealing much.

Singhi stop durgatsab Close to the Ekdalia Evergreen Club Durgatsab, near gariahat stands one of the legacy Durga pujas in Kolkata, the Singhi Park Sarbojanin Durgatsab which has maintained the conventional method for adoring the goddess Durga in this manner cutting its own particular character.