write a letter to your friend describing how you are celebrating Durga Puja during covid 19 pandemic
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Just before last year’s Durga Puja, three renowned community pujas of Kolkata tied up with a private company to allow one to offer puja ‘virtually’. The arrangement was all about setting up a website where darshan and pushpanjali were free by logging in, however both pronami and daala with sweets, fruits, sari, aalta and sindoor could be offered by online payment.
Such services are already available in big temples like Tirumala-Tirupati or Siddhivinayak Ganapati. Apparently, such a service during Durga Puja might have been targeted at those unable to attend puja physically. Honestly speaking, I never thought that we might need such arrangements and much more, en masse, in the following year. For a Bengali and a resident of Kolkata, Durga Puja is central to one’s yearlong survival.
However, amid the fear of spread of the pandemic, major sporting events such as the Tokyo Olympics, IPL, Wimbledon, French Open, Euro cup, Champions League, Tour de France, and important sociocultural festivals having tremendous economic impact on society such as the Chinese New Year celebration in January, the annual cherry blossom festival ‘Hanami’ of Japan in March, the San Fermín festival in July at the Spanish town of Pamplona, and Munich’s famed Oktoberfest folk and beer festival scheduled between September 19 to October 4 were either cancelled/postponed or turned colourless.Munich’s mayor, for example, while calling the decision of cancelling this year’s Oktoberfest a “bitter pill”, admitted that for businesses that take part in the festival it was a heavy financial blow. “But one can simply not take a decision other than this,” he said. Religious festivals across the globe and across religions have also been severely hit by coronavirus. This year’s Easter at Vatican was almost a solo performance by the Pope with an empty St. Peter’s Square, Eid prayers were held at the two holy mosques in Makkah and Madinah “without worshippers”, and Puri’s famous Rath Yatra was organised without devotees in a historic first. What would happen to the festivity of Durga Puja of Bengal then?
Certainly, Puja is not just a religious or a social event. Its economic importance in this part of the world is simply too big to ignore. ‘Hanami’ contributes about 2.25 per cent to the economy of Japan, the ‘Mardi Gras’ festival in New Orleans contributes slightly more than 1.5 per cent of the city’s GDP, and ‘Oktoberfest’ contributes slightly more than 1.35 per cent of the Bavarian capital’s economy. In contrast, ASSOCHAM had, in a 2013 report, estimated the size of the Durga Puja industry at ? 25,000 crore at an estimated compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 35 per cent. With that CAGR, the estimated size of the economy of Durga Puja in 2019 was nearly Rs 1.5 lakh crore, and that could be about Rs 2 lakh crore in 2020 under normal circumstances.
And that’s more than 10 per cent of West Bengal’s GDP! Let’s first look at the possible consequences of some of the festivals that took place amid the pandemic. New Orleans in the US pushed ahead with the Mardi Gras festival in April. And, thereafter, Louisiana has seen coronavirus cases skyrocket, particularly in New Orleans, the city at the centre of the state’s outbreak. Mardi Gras is believed to have fuelled the Louisiana coronavirus outbreak. According to Fiocruz, Brazil’s leading public health institute, this new coronavirus was circulating in Brazil in early February, weeks before the Rio Carnival during February 21- 25. Thus, one would keep on wondering about the role of the carnival in turning Brazil into one of the epicentres of Covid-19.
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