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Dignitaries of Kolkata enjoying dance performance at Red road carnival. Durga Puja is mainly celebrated for 5 days - Shashti, Saptami, Ashtami, Navami and Vijaya Dashami. But the festive mood around Durga Puja in Kolkata starts before Shashti, mainly from Mahalaya. Durga Puja pandals are opened to the public from the day of Mahalaya.
"Asian Paints Sharad Shamman" was started in 1985 as a means for awarding the best decorated puja pandal during Durga Puja in Kolkata.Sharad means "Autumn (as the festival takes place at that season)" and Shamman means "Award/Respect", and was sponsored by Asian Paints, hence the name Asian Paints Sharad Shamman.
Two theme-based pandals in Kolkata. Months before the start of Durga Puja, youth members of the community collect funds and donations, engage priests and artisans, buy votive materials and help build pandal s centered around a theme, which has rose to prominence in recent years.
The Kolkata International Book Fair or Kolkata Boi Mela is the world's largest non-trade annual book fair, as well as the largest book fair in Asia. Held on the Milan Mela ground near Science City on E.M. Bypass, this fair has over 600 stalls, selling over Rs.23,000,000 worth of books and attracting more than 2.5 million visitors annually.
Download QR code; In other projects Appearance. ... An artistic depiction of Hindu goddess Shitala at 25 Palli Sarbojanin Durga Puja pandal, Kidderpore, Kolkata, 2010.
2023 Theme of Chandannagar Jagaddhatri Puja. Every year its main attraction is the Puja Torana (Pandal) and the Mela. The Pandal is decorated as a famous monument in 2011 it was a miniature of US Capitol Building, United States. This year, it is Lalitha Mahal, Mysore.
as a small celebration in a shop [1] and has grown into one of Kolkata's largest & biggest Durga Puja celebrations, attended by celebrities, industrialists, politicians and foreign diplomats. [2] Manicktalla Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Pujo 2019. The Durga Puja is held near the intersection of Vivekananda Road and Amherst Street. [2]
Two Durga Puja pandals in Kolkata during Navaratri Navaratri is celebrated as the Durga Puja festival by Bengali Hindus , Assamese people , Bihari people , Tripuri people , Maithils , Nepalese people , Bhutanese people , Burmese people , Odia people as well as some minor tribal ethnicities in Bangladesh and India such as Santal people , Chakma ...