KOLKATA: Durga Puja is over this year but organisers have been busy preparing for the Red Road Durga Puja carnival, the spectacular event on Red Road where over 100 puja organisers will strut with the idols and tableaux on Friday afternoon.While some members have been busy practising their dance moves, others are going through the finer details of the attire that everybody will be wearing at the...
KOLKATA: Bengal’s Durga Puja economy could well have touched the Rs 50,000-crore mark this year with puja organisers, advertisers, retailers and restaurants registering a 20% hike in businesses over 2022. Kolkata is expected to account for around 20% of the pie at Rs 10,000 crore. Last year, total transactions were estimated to be around Rs 40,000 crore, up from Rs 32,377 crore in 2019.The 2019 figure...
KOLKATA: With the Durga Puja fervor in full swing, West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose is out on the streets of Kolkata to capture the festivity. While doing so, he provided shelter to a destitute individual and also offered him a job on Monday, proving himself a good samaritan.For the past three days, Bose has been trying to help people.The governor visited the All Bengal Women's Union home on Saturday...
Dhunuchi naach is performed during Durga Puja to honour the goddess. The participant holds at least one dhunuchi, an earthenware filled with coconut husk and dhunno (incense), which is burnt, producing a scented-smoke. The naach, characterised by graceful movements, subtle wrist twists while firmly gripping the censer, and rhythmic foot tapping on the beats of the dhaak, captivates visitors with its...
KOLKATA: During this year's Durga Puja in Kolkata, some prominent pandals will feature displays and stalls that educate festival-goers about how to prevent avoidable deaths. The Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN), an organization working on issues such as snakebites and drowning cases, has partnered with three puja organizers – Maddox Square, Jodhpur Park, and Suruchi Sangha.These stalls will showcase...
Kolkata: About 150 families of Bonkapasi, a remote village in Katwa, are burning the midnight oil to complete orders of “sholar saaj” (wood sponge ornamentation) for Durga Puja organisers across the country. With a turnover of more than Rs 50 crore during the puja months, all men will leave the village a couple of days before Mahalaya with these ornaments to dress up the Goddess in pandals....
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