Helapukur, Chandannagar

Golden Jubilee of the Jagadhatri Puja at Chandannagar. The organizers had hired a local goldsmith Senco Jewelers to make painted decorations made entirely out of real gold and decorated the area around the main altar with them. Some of the ornaments were really quite astonishing, such as one that depicted a deity wrapped in real […]

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Thanthania Dey BARIR Puja

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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Naihati Agragami Sangha Kali Puja

There are many popular Kali Puja pandals in Naihati and Naihati Agragami Sangha Kali Puja is one of them. Theme based pandal and idol are shown here. There are different themes chosen by this Puja committee in every year at the time of Kali Puja (Diwali in West Bengal). People enjoy visiting various pandals during […]

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Pujo in Pandemic

She’s ready for the journey to a new world, a world that’s going through a phase of “new normal” according to the people. To me a world that’s only the debris with it’s entire population, some having their basic needs, some do not. There’s nothing “new” in it, having only the carcass of human hatred. […]

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