Pujas 2021 - The Year of Revival... A Review
I’ve never quite been able to handle the speed at which Durga Pujas whizz past you and before you can bat an eyelid it’s just done and dusted…. These 7 days of festivities for any Kolkatan like me, go past at breakneck pace… from Birendra Krishna Bhadra’s evocative chants on the Mahalaya dawn… to the Devi Chokkhudaan… to the inauguration of Mandaps & the reverberating drumrolls… to the Parikramas… and finally to Bijoya Dashami… almost everything launch & culminate in a jiffy…. When I sit back generally to dwell on the celebrations, more often than not it is already well past Debi Pakkha where the Mandaps wear a forlorn look with illuminations off and the deity having left for her heavenly abode…. This had been a tough year for almost everybody, and I had sincerely thought that Durga Puja week would offer you reasonable breathing time to absorb & muse over it…. But like each year, it came and went like The Flash or The Quicksilver…. And probably that’s the truest ingenuity o