1st October Durga Pooja In
Dehradun
Pooja here was a mixed bag as we
were not aware of the popel who stay here also we were not involved in any of
the celebrations. Mainly Partha is not very interested. The bhog prashad which
is a trade mark of probashi bong (NRB) festivals is absent in West Bengal. ...
Here in Dehradun it is sponsored by people…
On saptami Mukherjee poribar on
Ashtami " jaggi and kumar
family".
In Indore the "chanda"
collected would be used for lunches. Ranna ghor would be closed from ‘sashti’
evening to Dusshera but still standing in lines and watching the program used
to be very tiring. There in Indore the sweet dish if any was sponsored and the sponsor’s
name would be announced on mike system.
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| At Durga Badi near Doon School |
2nd October
We are here at the
maha ashtami pooja and as usual with the growing and hungry populace there is a
huge wait list and line for every place possible. I miss my Indore so much. We don’t
know anyone here.. and also feel like idiots in a huge crowd.
This day we had
com to visit the Ram Krishna math and
there is an air of serenity about the place. There monks of all shapes and
sizes. Some cute ones were serving us food. There was rice, poori, two types of
wet vegs and also a sweet at the end. My Mil talked to a guru who has taked
Dikha. She was also pleased to meet a guru
bhai, who resides now in Kolkata but had come here especially on the
occasion of Durga Pooja. We then went home.
Yesterday for “maha
saptami pooja” there was a small nritya
natika called " Iti Mrinal". It was about a mejo bou who
saddened about the death of her sister who died as she was married to an idiot atyachari
man so she kills herself. She told on a song.. "you may have won but
you will be defeated by death who will take me from your clutches".
So Mrinal
says.. I won't go to your house goli
number (some bong number which I could nor catch). She becomes a sadhavi. She tells her hubby all this in
a letter and we saw it as a play. There was a dance in the song ...
" mm chitte... niti nrittye.. ke je naache ...ta ta thoi thoi... tata toi
thoi... I loved that specially. Before that there was a katthak dance by
a group called divine group.
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| At Ram Krishna Math |
In the morning there
was a huge war for flowers and leaves that only bongs all over the world manage
to fight each year. Then we were told that there would be a long wait before
lunch which is why we left the campus and went to Ram Krishna math Dehradun.
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| Pooja at Raipur |
Let me wind up and
enjoy the fight the bongs have over flowers and leaves at this time of the
year. It is the time for Pushpanjali.
