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Ghetu Puja

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Ghetu Puja is being observed today on Ghetu Sankranti in rural Bengal. It is a traditional festival of rural areas. In the morning and evening, kids come to every household with lantern, incense sticks and Ghetu flowers to sing the songs of Ghetu. They collect small amount of money from the household. It is the ritual of certain classes of rural people. Ghetu flowers are always bloom in the spring time mainly on the roadside and waste lands. It is a white flower with sweet scent and pink on the centre arranged in branched clusters. Hill Glory Bowed is the common name of this flower. It's botanical name is Clerodendrum Infortunatum. It belongs to the plant family Verbenaceae. This is native to our region. We all know it by the names Ghetu, Ghontakorno, Bhat and Bhaita. -- A. B.

Vasant Utsav 2015 At Jorasanko Thakur Bari

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Vasant-utsav observed at Jorasanko campus of Rabindra Bharati University on 2 March, 2015. -- A. B.

Vasant Utsav 2015 At Shantiniketan - Part - 4

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Vasant Utsav 2015 At Shantiniketan - Part - 3

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