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Bengali Durga puja venues to reverberate with conch & dhaak

Edit The Times of India 08 Oct 2016
Nagpur. With five days of Durga puja commencing from Friday, Bengali community across the city is all set to welcome the goddess at various pandals ... The puja at Dixit Nagar on Naari Road was initiated seven years ago by 42 Bengali families residing here ... And it’s not just the traditional puja, but garba too is performed by ladies and men. “There are a lot of non-Bengalis here and through garba we are able to involve everybody,” she said....

City immersed in Durga Puja, Dasara festivities

Edit The Times of India 08 Oct 2016
HYDERABAD.It's that time of the year when denizens deck up in all their finery to usher in one of the grandest festivals -Durga Puja ... And there are books too. "Book sellers from Bengal have come with three to four trucks of books on Bengali literature.This will promote Bengali literature, which has thousands of takers in Hyderabad," said Deepak Bhattacharya, president of BSS ... "The festival gets bigger and better with every year ... RELATED....

2 Malayalam films in IFFK global section

Edit The Hindu 08 Oct 2016
Two Malayalam films have been selected for the International Competition section of the 21st International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) to be held from December 9 to 16 at Thiruvananthapuram ... Biju are the films selected. The other Indian films selected for the International Competition section are Bengali film Chitrokar - The last mural directed by Saibal Mitra and Assamese film Midnight Keteki directed by Santwana Bardoloi ... Panju ... ....

City adorns bengali colours with beginning of Durga Puja

Edit The Times of India 07 Oct 2016
CHANDIGARH ... City based bengali families will be celebrating the festivity at different venues across Chandigarha and Panchkula ... Durga Puja begins from the first Navratra which is called Mahalaya ... In Kalibari temple some special arrangements have been made to add a special Bengali touch to the pandals ... A special Bengali bhog will be another treat for Bengalis and non-Bengali residents ... RELATED....

After 55 years, Bengali Club welcomes public for Mahalaya

Edit The Times of India 07 Oct 2016
Mahalaya and Chandi path recitation at Bengali Club was opened to public for the first time on Friday since the ritual started 55 years ago ... Earlier, it was limited to committee members only," said Arun Kumar Banerjee, president, Bengali Club ... Durgotsava of Bengali Club....

The Bengali bond

Edit The Hindu 07 Oct 2016
The city’s Bengalis will be organising Durga Puja at various centres ... Far older is the Bengal Association, which began life in 1929 as the Bengali Settlers Association. The Bengali presence in Madras, however, dates to much before that ... While there, he learnt Tamil, probably becoming the first Bengali to do so ... After Michael Madhusudan Dutt, he was perhaps the second Bengali to learn Tamil....

Non-resident Bengalis soak in festive fervour

Edit The Times of India 07 Oct 2016
At long last, the Bengalis settled in the UK, USA and Canada are in the nucleus (read Kolkata) of Durga Puja or "pujo" (as Bengalis pronounce it) for something more than just pandal-hopping ... The non-resident Bengalis (NRBs) are overwhelmed to be a part of the collaboration -`Probasheer Chokhey desher Shera Pujo' -between London Sharad Utsav (LSU) ......

Being Bengali!

Edit The Hindu 07 Oct 2016
But as a Bengali, I am not feeling the way I ought to be during this time of the year. To every Bengali, it’s time for Durga Puja and oh, the ‘pujo’ feeling!. I have been filled with “sharadiyo” greetings by friends and family from all over the world. Yet I feel lost ... And yet this autumnal hallmark of places with even few hundred Bengali families remains the same in some critical ways ... Keywords....

Dasara fervour - In Bengaluru, Odias share pandals with Bengalis

Edit The Times of India 07 Oct 2016
BENGALURU. Nirmala Mishra, 43, has shopped for saris and filled her loft with groceries. The Munnekollau resident is among the five lakh Odias in Bengaluru who are all geared up for the fiveday Dussehra celebrations that begin on Friday. After the rath yatra, or chariot festival, the Dussehra Puja is the second most important festival for the Odias ... Odias in other localities share Dussehra pandals with Bengalis ... RELATED....

Youth roped in for Durga puja festivities to help them keep in touch with their roots

Edit The Times of India 07 Oct 2016
They tend to forget the importance of the Bengali culture which comprises of a variety of art forms, literature and togetherness. In an attempt to teach the youth the importance of this fading culture, we have arranged for a number of events such as enacting plays, dances in the traditional Bengali attires, musicals by renowned Bengali artists and other programmes, all of which will be in Bengali....

Durga Puja 2016: Detailed schedule and timing of rituals for Devi Katyayani

Edit DNA India 07 Oct 2016
Shoshti Puja or Katyayani Puja, Saraswati Awahan, Kalparambha (within 8-30am), Akal Bodhon/Amontron, Adhivas Puja is celebrated on this day according to the Bengali calendar (panjika) ... Saptami Puja or Kalaratri Puja, Navpatrika Puja or Kolabou Puja done according to the Bengali calendar ... Ashtami Puja or Maha-Ashtami Puja or Mahagauri Puja, Sandhi Puja, Kumari Puja and Saraswati Puja done according to the Bengali calendar....

Japanese pagoda, zamindar's mansion draw devotees to Vashi pandals

Edit The Times of India 07 Oct 2016
From big budget events featuring Shah Rukh Khan to the closure of one of the biggest pujas three years ago, the Bengalis have seen it all ... The 37-year-old event of the Navi Mumbai Bengali Association (NMBA) has occupied the Netaji Subhash sports ground in Vashi. "Our pandal theme revolves around the traditional mansion of the Bengali zamindar of yore," said president Bivas Maity....

Celebrating a heritage

Edit Deccan Herald 07 Oct 2016
This year, ‘Bengali in Bangalore’ or BinB will be hosting the sixth year of ‘Durgotsav’ at BTM 2nd stage till October 11 ... ‘Rabindra Sangeet’, being a dominant part of Bengali culture, the members will be performing a fusion dance having both traditional and modern forms ... Any Bengali festival is incomplete without food....
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