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Durga Puja: West Bengal
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During the four days of Durga Puja, Bengalis really let their hair down. Beside the actual Puja, most pandals organise different kinds of competition to regale the local people. It’s party time for both children and adults alike as they participate wholeheartedly in the fun and frolic. Local talent gets a chance to share the stage (a makeshift one more often than not) with more illustrious artists.
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BANSW is the largest Bengali community organisation within Sydney metropolitan area and its members have been celebrating Durga Puja each year since 1971. This year, the puja will be celebrated on the 30th September and 1st October, with new idols(Ma Durga and her family) imported from Kumartuli in Kolkata. So if you are in Sydney during the above period, be sure to join the celebration!
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Besides the revelry and ritual associated with Durga Puja, the 3 days of festivity means sale of goods and wares worth thousands of dollars. Business owners, don’t miss this opportunity to show your products to 500 plus Bengali families. Rent a booth now. Contact Mitra Nag at mitra@basconline.com
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It is more than thirty years since Bankim Chandra Chatterji, the great Bengali romancer, sang the vision of the ended Durga Puja as the hour of the Motherland's need as he saw the image plunge beneath the waves. That the poet spoke the innermost thought of his countrymen, interpreting the yearly drama that belongs to each one in a national sense... distant he may be in the sectarian; that he voiced in his poem what each household and each individual had known already
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[T]he countdown is over and time comes for the four days of the grand finale of Durga puja. The whole of Bengal is brimmed with the unique philharmonic of conch shells, the rhythms of Dhaks, and of course, the chanting of hymns, prayers and pushpanjali. The spirit of the festivity of durga puja breaks loose all over Bengal.
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