Asim Bando's KOLKATA BLOG

Swami Vivekananda's Birthday: Sovabazar Rajbari: At 2pm Swamiji's birthday and in memory of Chicago speech a programme presented by Shankha Ghosh, Srijata, Joy Goswami, Shankar etc. Organiser - Ritabak. Ramkrishna Mission (Golpark): Swami Vivekananda Music Festival (9am-8:15pm). Misc. - Baguiati Sports Council: Exotic bird exhibition (2pm-7pm) upto 14th January'18. Pithe-Puli Utsav (পিঠে-পুলি উৎসব): At Rajdanga Maath, organised by Rajdanga Club Samannay (রাজডাঙ্গা ক্লাব সমন্বয়) upto 16th January'18.

Bird lovers are watching various birds at the Rath Mela of Moulali Ramlila Maidan, Kolkata now, as usual like every year. -- A. B.

It's winter, and bird fair is here in the city of joy. Crowded bird fair just ended on 24 January at YMCA Hall of Vivekananda Road in north Kolkata where more than hundred exotic birds were exhibited by the courtesy of Calcutta Bird Breeders' & Lovers' Association. Amongst them, some rare species of Macaw and Kakatua were the main attractions of the visitors. A fresh Bird Fair is now running at Santosh Mitra Square in central Kolkata. -- A. B.

Artificial lights of various parks of Kolkata overwhelming birds. Electric lights of about 50ft high posts snatching sleeps of birds. Hence, they are deciding to go elsewhere. The Mayor of Kolkata directed his officials to reorient the lights of parks. The birds who use to sleep in complete dark, feeling disturbed by the high power lights falling on trees and flying blindly to re-search their nests. So, Kolkata Municipal Corporation decided to install dimmer and 'timer' at the parks so that, high power lights will be off after 9pm and height of the posts will also be reduced. -- A. B.