Pujas 2022 - The Year of Pomp!!... A Review
Random Scene on the Ekadoshi (the day after Durga Immersion)…. Devi has departed from most Mandaps, though some would be waiting for the Grand send-off at the Red Road Carnival… the pavilions wear a desolate look… the string lights on the roads have been taken off… the street vendors have wrapped up their wares and gone… for most of us, it would be time to answer those piled up office mails… normalcy has been restored… But what is so abnormal about the Durga Pujas?? How is it different from the 4000 odd other Pujas that we have around the year? Why can’t Durga Pujas just be another run-of-the-mill event? Well, for all you know Durga Puja isn’t supposed to happen in Autumn at all….. so, is this darn thing under a garb of something else which doesn’t meet the discerning eye… I wonder!!! Is it the Pujas, or is it about the city, Kolkata?! Might be… the megapolis which usually takes pride in its slumber and frailties suddenly shakes off its unflappable fatigue during the 10 days of e...