Durga Puja – A festival of light, joy and food.
Durga Puja likewise alluded to as Durgotsava is a yearly Hindu celebration that commands the love of the Hindu goddess Durga. The initial six days are seen as Mahalaya and afterwards Shashthi, Maha Saptami, Maha Ashtami, Maha Navami and Vijayadashami. A similar period is otherwise called Navratri. Durga Puja celebration denotes the triumph of Goddess Durga over the malevolent wild ox devil Mahishasura and embodies the triumph of Good over Evil. The celebration is generally celebrated in eastern conditions of India, for example, West Bengal, Assam, Tripura, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Manipur. This is the biggest celebration of Bengali Hindus and the most recent five days in the state are pronounced as official occasions. The Durga Puja has been praised since the medieval period and progressively advanced with the progression of time. Presently multi day’s Durga Puja has broken every one of the limits and has gone a long ways past the religion, station, statement of faith, and culture. While visiting the remarkable and huge topic based pandals, one can without much of a stretch express that Durga Puja is the biggest outside craftsmanship celebration on earth. The music, move, and workmanship shown amid the Durga Puja assumed an essential job in associating the network in Bengal, India and at last over the globe. The procedure of celebration begins with exceedingly enhanced, life-sized symbols of Durga made by potters out of dirt. In extensive open spaces around West Bengal pandals are made to house the symbols. The icons are revered for five days and after that conveyed in the great parade to a neighbourhood stream for inundation, symbolizing Durga’s gathering with Shiva.
Top 10 Durga Puja Pandal:-
- Mohammad Ali Park
- Santosh Mitra Square
Santosh Mitra Square(Lebutala-Local name) is famous for it theme pandal, artistic theme idol of Goddess Durga. This place is located in the central Kolkata, this place is also famous for kite sellers at whole sale rate. Opposite of durga pandal, a small fair is also arranged to chill and relax for Pandal hoppers. Giant wheel, Mickeymouse Baloon, Disco dance etc are the most common attraction for the pandal visitors.
- College Square
- Ahiritola Sarabjonin Park
Ahiritola sarbajanin durgotsab samity known for it extremely unique ideas for puja pandals. Most unique thing about Ahiritola is that idol makers borrow clay from brothel to build idol of godess durga, to spread a message about struggle of sex workers.
- Tarun Sangha
- Deshapriya Park
- Kumartuli Park
It is one of the most youthful and the noticeable Durgatsab in Kolkata, showing the loftiness of Goddess Durga in the most stunning manner. The Kumartuli Park Durga Puja Pandal shows a combination of antiquated workmanship and gloriousness design which brings each part of customary Indian culture. The Puja here is especially extraordinary on the grounds that it happens where huge numbers of the Durga icons are carefully assembled by expert dirt creators.
- Sreebhumi
Sreebhumi is not known to anyone, it has all started to gaining name after sponsorship by Anjali Jwellers who sponsored ₹10 cr necklace to Sreebhumi durgotosab samity. Necklace in the neck of Goddess Durga is the main attraction, and Mahesmati Mahal the famous imaginary building from movie Bahubali-2 also attarcted many people.
- Tridhara Sammilini
- Naktala Udayan Sangha
The club was established in the year 1947, being the time of noteworthiness as it was the time of Independence. At the very beginning of the club there were around fifteen to twenty individuals and the Durga Puja then was done in an in all respects plain and very way. As the years passed by then seniors gave over the administration of the club to their cutting edge who are currently present seniors of our own.
Tentatives dates of Durga Puja 2019
| Name Of Event | Day | Date Of Event |
|---|---|---|
| Mahalaya 2019 | Sunday | 29 September 2019 |
| Maha panchami 2019 | Thursday | 3 October 2019 |
| Maha Sasthi 2019 | Friday | 4 October 2019 |
| Maha Saptami 2019 | Saturday | 5 October 2019 |
| Maha Ashtami 2019 | Sunday | 6 October 2019 |
| Maha Navami 2019 | Monday | 7 October 2019 |
| Bijaya Dashmi 2019 | Tuesday | 8 October 2019 |