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Dum Dum Park Tarun Dal's Theme 2014 Durga Puja

Handicrafts of bamboo is being adopted by Durga Puja committee of Dum
Dum Park Tarun Dal. This cottage industry is very old and hardly seen
everywhere. "রং-এ বাঁশে জাল বুনি" is the theme and bamboo is the main
element of pandal. Theme-maker Anirban Das is creating this theme.
Large trees, peacocks, sea, coloured fishes, birds, wind-mill etc.
would be made by bamboos. Beautiful colours will welcome visitors
here. The idol of debi Durga will be traditional. Clay artist Parimal
Paul is making the idol. Hence, on this 37th year, Dum Dum Park Tarun
Dal's puja will surely attract viewers, they think.

--
A. B.

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