Asim Bando's KOLKATA BLOG

Sun is the theme of Dum Dum Park Bharat Chakra Durga Puja. The sun is here like an iron ball and the rays are made of bamboos and aluminium foil. Models of about ten thousand human made of thermocole would be there inside the puja pandal. And the models will be wrapped by aluminum foil. Theme-maker Gouranga Kuilya. The image of goddess Durga would be very calm and traditional. It is their 12 year's puja. -- A. B.

Nature and woman - unification of both are depicting Dum Dum Park Tarun Dal in their puja pandal of this 35 year's Durga Puja. And the ingredient of this theme is - wool, colourful wools. The female artisans of Laxmikantapur are now busy with implementation of this theme with about 500 kgs wool. They're creating this artwork since last February. The sky, soil and water - three stages of their pandal. At first, you have to go through the sky, then have to cross soil and lastly the water.Anirban Das is the theme-maker. Suppose, you're going across sky, then you can see flying birds and ducks, the autumn clouds will float, lot of fairies and butterflies, but when you comes on earth, you can see the dancing santhals, singing bauls, riders on elephants. Moreover, trees, birds, deers - all will be there. At last, when you comes on water, you'll see bloomed lotuses , fishes, egrets, mermaids... and the wonderful thing is that, all these things would be made of wo...