“Durga puja comes with light and fire
It brings back the yearly desire”
Durga puja is known as the biggest festival in West Bengal.Every year it comes with joy, laughter, and wipes away the tears of sorrow. Kolkata people awaits for this for the whole year just to enjoy this four days.
People in Kolkata never hesitates in spending thousands and thousands of money in this. Spending crores of rupees in the name of worshipping maa Durga is quite usual these days .In Durga pandels people invests crores of rupees just to make their puja better than the other.
Now, the question is this a wastage? As Durga maa comes as a ray of hope for those who work as light man, idol makers, mike man, priests as well as food stall workers. As their yearly income depend on this festival. Kolkata Durga puja is famous for making beautiful and innovative Unique pandals, making of it is done by small budget artists, those who are not yet that much successful in life but they earn their living and come in limelight and get appreciated from the viewers. As Kolkata is known as the city that never sleeps, people of Kolkata highly maintains it and a very effective role in it takes place by the Durga puja and making Kolkata beautiful in this four days is hugely done the light man dadas. They work day and night just to make some money as their entire yearly income depends on this. They come from all sorts of small villages to the city just to earn some money and without Durga puja festival and high budget in it this would have been not possible. Without an idol the puja makes no sense, so the idol makers stay in huge demand for those days. Places like Kumartuli, etc is famous for making idols. The makers depend and look forward to this festival every year. Not only the idol makers the dholaks, the priests share the same emotions. These are all fine as this certain range of people’s income depends on this festival. But the still the question rises how come the puja committee people invests so much of money? Well its because the money is raised through sponsorships.
.This sponsorship is the new trend which is extremely common in todays time .Rajat Das, a puja committee member of Narkelbagan Sarbojanin Durga Utsav said,”the front gate to the Durga maa pratima hoardings and banners will cost one lakh fifty thousand, the left gate will range eighty thousand and the right seventy five thousand, the front tower will range three lakhs and the second one two lakhs respectively.”Not only this is happening in Narkel bagan puja but in the total city. The more famous puja will be it will get more sponsorships.
The mouth watering foods phuchka, chicken rolls, Biriyani, icecreams without all this the puja is incomplete. As Bengalis are notably love eating especially street foods and sweets. So, Durga puja is a pure bliss to everyone how much we try to avoid it but we really can’t.
Sancharini Chakrabarti
UG-BMS
3rd Semester
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