Batakrishna Pal’s ancestral house was situated in Shibpur of Howrah district, where Durga Puja is a rather popular annual celebration. There Lakshmi Durga is worshipped. Over time, this devout reverent of Devi decided to move to the bustling chattel of Calcutta, in 1855 and set up his medicine shop in Shovabazar area. And immediately he […]
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The puja is held at 1, Muktaram Babu Second Lane and 12, Santoshpur. The puja is nearly 250 years old. The family had its roots in Rajshahi (presently in Bangladesh). Later the ancestors of this family settled at a place in Maitrabagan at Adharmanigram in Basirhat of North 24 Parganas. The puja was stopped for […]
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Girish Chandra Dey and other staunch devotees built a temple back in 1897. They had their first puja this year at their friends house, Manik Lal Dey’s house, after they finished constructing the Thanthania Kalibari. For 12 years they carried on with the puja while they worked hard to build an even more awesome puja […]
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Madan Gopal Dey was the person who started this puja back in the year 1884. This puja is presently held in his ancestral storehouse on Madan Gopal Lane in College Street, Kolkata. According to Sri Biswanath Dey, a member of the family, their ancestors originally came from Chandannagar outside of Mumbai India some five generations […]
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Bhawanipur
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Jatindra Mohan Avenue
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Located in Pathuriaghata in North Kolkata, this homestead has probably the grandest ‘thakur dalan’ in the city.
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The Durga Puja celebrations at Sovabazar Rajbari is centuries old. “While everybody waited for the goat to be sacrificed, it managed to escape. Surrounded by a roaring crowd, it ran up the stairs and took shelter at the feet of Maa Durga,” narrates Soumit Narayan Deb of Sovabazar Rajbari in north Kolkata.
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Sabarna Roy Choudhury Family
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