THE SNU POST REG NO. SNU/MCAJ/2020 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 KOLKATA PAGES ISSUE 003 Why have food outside Nine days of festivities, The Golden Shooter of India when you can make them, pre-puja and some inter- with a zeal for learning and inside? Go ahead and rec- esting facts to go with it. experience to provide, for reate your favourite snacks, inspiration. home-style. PAGE -02 PAGE -04 PAGE -03 PUJO BRIEF Bengal’s mega festival all set to go “virtual” Dark clouds for Madhusree Dasgupta their celebration arrange- way.One of the com- ativity. She says "It Bengalis or a new Miniature pandals ments, maintaining the so- pany’s executive Shata- is an interactive ex- introduced for the first madhusreedasguptaa cial distancing guidelines rupa Banerjee says, "If perience, zoom in to positive change? time in 2020 The mega annual call of of the West Bengal govern- shopping can be done anything at all, and Koustav Sengupta 95 Palli Jodhpur Park pujo the Durga Puja festival ment. For instance, the Tala online, why not pan- you are touching it committee in Kolkata has come is round the corner to Barowari Durgotsab in the dal hopping!" This year right there, you are koustavsengupta_ up with a unique idea. They ablaze the hearts of Ben- northern fringes of Kolkata The Puja App 8.0 is pre- to decide how much are planning a miniature pujo According to a few studies, it is expected gal. With a handful of are all set to organise their sented by Sister Nived- of what you want to pandal, which they can car- that in a few years' time, Durga Puja will not ry around the whole area and days remaining, the air Centenary year mark with- ita University-Techno see." A person sitting organised by the elderly members of the lo- spread the blessings of maa is imbued with "pujor out faded spirit, taking aid India Group and 360° in some other coun- cality but by the event management com- durga to everyone. gondho" and the kash- of the "new normal" virtual VR labs. The main Mo- try can experience panies, adding a corporate touch. Although fool reckons the quint- bonanza. tivation under making just as much as a there are many pros and cons to it. essential flavour of person sitting right Mahisasur vs. Mr. Saswata Basu of Hatibagan Sarbojonin the maturation of next to the pandal. implied that Durga Puja committees will Coronasur- Kumartuli the golden "Devi It is global in out- ask event management companies to take artisans’ concept paksha". But this reach but local in over soon enough. ''Our volunteers and the Not Mahisasur but Coronasur year's COVID-19 flavor. That's the is the concept for the Kumartuli security guards are enough as of now. See, pandemic situation brilliance of it. artists for this year’s pujo. The the young generation will not be so much is to blame for a ma- People will have to Kumartuli artists call the de- into organising a durga puja". jor breakdown in adapt to the "alter- mon Coronasur, which impli- On the other hand, the puja will be disci- the 5-day arrange- native platform" cates the novel corona virus. As plined and organised. The crowds will be 80 artists from Kumartuli tested ments. Having taken of digitization to controllable and there will many fun activ- positive and currently they are a virtual detour, this witness Durgotsav all well, they think the reason year's Durgotsav perhaps To avoid the advancement and running such an 2020 and carry a ities. behind their wellness is Durga will be a rare sight devoid of the deadly virus The Puja Online Application is to different perspective However, we still won't see our mothers and maa. of the crowded famil- App arrived as the savior. let users explore, expe- other than the tra- aunties arranging 108 lotuses for Ashtami iar streets, illuminated This is a digital app that lets rience and enjoy all the ditional "touch and pujo or 108 diyas for Sandhi puja. There Mamata Banerjee high-budget pandals, the you enjoy 360-degree Ul- artistry, creativity, inno- feel" experience. would be employees working in uniforms announces protocol for gallore of dhaaks and the tra HD quality VR Ready vation & concept from of the event management companies, with free-minded pandal hop- Digital Walk through of the pandals, no matter walkie-talkies attached to their ears. DJs this year’s pujo will keep the tracks ready, not forgetting the Some orders were given by CM ping. Several organisers the best installation art where the viewers are”. traditional Dhaki's presence for Bhashan Mamata Banerjee to the pujo of Kolkata have decided (pandals) of Durga Puja, The chief motive is to committee, to be strictly abided to implement the con- using the Power of Virtual archive all of these great dance. The vintage Durga puja might get by. She asked to place hand san- cept of "Virtual pujo" in reality in a very different works of Art and Cre- systematised but lets hope for for the best. itizers into the pandals, manda- tory masks for everyone, and COVID-19 spurs into curtailing of the height of Durga Pratima asked the pujo committees to Prerona Munshi keep the pandals open from the ployed due to a deficiency er to come to work or not. has started since 2 months. but this year the picture side or from the top for proper of work at the workshops. The Secretary of Kumortuli The number of labour is very is completely different. prerona_munshi ventilation. A large number of the he- Mritshilpi Samiti, Babu Paul less due to fewer number Bhabesh Ranjan Paul, a se- Kolkata : The pandemic reditary idol makers in Ku- says, “the business has been of orders for idols. Further- nior artisan from Kumor- Kolkata pujo this year has overshad- mortuli hail from the dis- gloomy this year, the work- more, the height of the idol tuli says, “Due to the coro- committee comes up owed the spirit of Durga trict of Nadia. The workers ers were unemployed for is shortened this year due to navirus outbreak during with a unique idea of Puja and has cast its dark had moved Photo credit : Prerona Munshi a shortening of the budget the Annapurna Puja, the "robot" in this shadow over the artisan's back to in Puja arrangement com- puja committees were in a pandemic pottery of Kumortuli. their homes mittees. We usually make state of dilemma whether With the income drying in Nadia to conduct Puja this year A robot is introduced in the Durga idols of 11 foot or up, artisans are now star- and other or not with the rising num- biggest festival of West Ben- 12 foot but this year the or- ing at an uncertain future. districts at ber of Covid-19 cases.” gal for the first time. The ders are for idols of 7 foot, The Bengali calendar is the very A similar cloud of doom is Thakurpukur SB Park Durga 8 foot or less”. They even used for scheduling the beginning hanging over the other ar- Pujo committee has come received orders for 35 or great festival of Durga of the coro- tisans of Kumortuli as well. up with the idea. The robot more idols previously, but Puja. Workers usually start navirus The potters' fate hangs in welcomes everyone at the now the amount has de- the process of making clay outbreak in great uncertainty but they entrance of the puja pandal Covid vs. Pujo - A take on batting a pandemic whilst creased to less than a half. idols for Durga Puja in the March and the biggest celebration. are not losing hopes yet. by giving them hand sanitiz- The primary revenue of month of Baishakh, but now due to fewer num- 5 months, but now due to the year is typically made They are still waiting for er, which is a unique concept this time the situation is ber of orders of the idols, incoming orders of Durga at this time and usual- their silver lining amid the in itself in this Covid-19 pan- completely different, most the workers are also in the idols which are less and is ly, there remains no time virus hovering over their demic. of them are now unem- state of dilemma wheth- 75% of the other years, work to breathe at the factory, heads. Sister Nivediata University, Mass Communication and Journalism Department #Students Press REG NO. SNU/MCAJ/2020 THE SNU POST THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 ISSUE 003 02 Encompassing Bengal Divided by borders, united by culture Nine nights of devotion and Festivity Diptesh Das thus this is one of the must-visit pandals. is so full of people that there are no places Ankita Kumari Azadi golli, Cheragi pahar: to stand or sit. After Anjali they serve a kh- diptesh_das With many themed pujo and different ver- ichuri bhog and it tastes so heavenly that __ankitasharmaaa sions of Maa Durga’s idols throughout the you have to come back every year for that Chattagram; Bangladesh : Bangladesh Navratri- Nava (nine) and Ratri (night), city, most people still want 'Satwik Pujo' bhoger khichuri. And for that occasion, any is home to 17 million of the Hindu pop- is a sacred nine-day long festival which is to be normalized. That's why Azadi golli morning of Saptami, Ashtami or Nambami ulation (as of 2020), being the third larg- widely celebrated in the Hindu culture. It is Puja Committee were widely appreciated must be reserved for Ramkrishna Mission.