write a letter to friend telling him/her that how will you celebrate your durgapuja
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The idols were submerged on Monday, ending the Durga Puja festival in India.
Part Thanksgiving, part Lent, part state fair, Durga Puja is six days of fasting and feasting, prayer and Bacchanalia. Some households, like that of my wife’s family, have a definite bias towards the latter.
While Durga Puja is celebrated in several states across India, the epicenter is West Bengal, where the state grinds to a halt and then erupts in a massive display of pageantry. Families gather. Housing societies and clubs erect “pandals,” or elaborate structures to worship the Hindu mother goddess Durga, which they spend the whole year planning. Late night pandal-hopping provides an alibi for young people to meet and romance. And everyone gorges on so much food that they are disgusted with themselves. The process is repeated every day, literally ad nauseum.
The Hindu festival celebrates the annual visit from the heavens by the goddess Durga and her four children: the goddess of wealth Lakshmi, the goddess of wisdom Saraswati, the elephant god Ganesh, and the bachelor god Kartikeya. It also commemorates Durga’s defeat of the buffalo demon Mahishasura, who, according to Hindu belief, had the ability to transform from a man to a water buffalo at will.
Over the three days that I was at my in-laws in a small town in West Bengal, I consumed approximately two whole goats, so much fish that I think I might now be amphibious, as well as enough sandesh (dry curd mixed with palm sugar), naru (balls of roasted coconut and palm sugar), and rasagullas (curd balls boiled in sugar syrup) to ensure an early onset of Type 2 diabetes.
Part Thanksgiving, part Lent, part state fair, Durga Puja is six days of fasting and feasting, prayer and Bacchanalia. Some households, like that of my wife’s family, have a definite bias towards the latter.
While Durga Puja is celebrated in several states across India, the epicenter is West Bengal, where the state grinds to a halt and then erupts in a massive display of pageantry. Families gather. Housing societies and clubs erect “pandals,” or elaborate structures to worship the Hindu mother goddess Durga, which they spend the whole year planning. Late night pandal-hopping provides an alibi for young people to meet and romance. And everyone gorges on so much food that they are disgusted with themselves. The process is repeated every day, literally ad nauseum.
The Hindu festival celebrates the annual visit from the heavens by the goddess Durga and her four children: the goddess of wealth Lakshmi, the goddess of wisdom Saraswati, the elephant god Ganesh, and the bachelor god Kartikeya. It also commemorates Durga’s defeat of the buffalo demon Mahishasura, who, according to Hindu belief, had the ability to transform from a man to a water buffalo at will.
Over the three days that I was at my in-laws in a small town in West Bengal, I consumed approximately two whole goats, so much fish that I think I might now be amphibious, as well as enough sandesh (dry curd mixed with palm sugar), naru (balls of roasted coconut and palm sugar), and rasagullas (curd balls boiled in sugar syrup) to ensure an early onset of Type 2 diabetes.
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