Finally the day has come to say Good Bye to MAA DURGA and again to wait for a year long to have her Darshan and to find her among us….That’s the irony and the craze too..
Durga Puja has come to an end. For Bengalis and for others too, it is not just a five-day festival — its a festival of coming back together again from the rat race which we are in; after forgetting everything we enjoy too the fullest extent.
Perhaps for many of us including teens, Durga Puja is their initiation in Bengali classical music & Rabndra Sangeet as they play on loudspeakers in pandals. We come into our traditional dresses by putting off jeans – T shirts, top & skirts for kurta-pyjama and beautiful sarees clad look, With the bhashan over , we will all go back to our modern, hi-tech lives, only to come back next year, lured by the smell of incense and the sound of the dhaks