Every year during this time I would generally be counting days for the festive time to begin...
Especially Durga pujas, which is so much more than puja and rituals, it is celebration and fun time...With less than a month to go, if this were a regular year, Kolkata would have started transforming....creative puja pandals would be coming up, shopping places would be buzzing with people, and a general sense of happiness would prevail.
Year 2020 changed it all! This year I feel none of the excitement :(
Can't imagine I won't go out to see those creative and artistic pandals, each more unique than the other. The pujas will be held but on a low scale and in a controlled way given that the pandemic is continuing to be. Don't know if there will be those out of the world creative pandals to see this year, and even if there are, I would have to stay home and watch on TV 😢
I was going through the pictures I had clicked from the 2019 Durga pujas. Just going through the artistic and beautiful pandals makes me yearn for those times. Will miss those moments this year...
I missed sharing pictures of some of my favourite puja pandals from South Kolkata. Posting those down below.Stay safe and let’s throw this relentless virus out of our lives!
The below pandal was on a jungle theme, very well created:)
The below Durga puja pandal was a gem, my personal favourite. They created an old time Kolkata street with shops, houses, cycle repair stores, saloon...so real..so perfectly done. This is what I am so amazed about, every year, year after year...the creation is mind boggling...not seen any such creative puja pandals anywhere!
The below was unique too, the faces that you see...would keep changing as you approached them, from Goddess Durga's to famaous women in history.
Another beautiful and artistic one:)
The below was on recycling plastic, and they used it in the decorations:
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