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Festivities in trying times | A Different Durga Puja | TicTalkToe

Festivities in trying times | A Different Durga Puja | TicTalkToe

Somebody please pinch me that Durga Puja is not even a week away! Yes the biggest festival for Bengalis, for which we wait the whole year round with great enthusiasm (ashche bochor abar hobe!) is now celebrated with great pomp and show all over India 

Doshobhuja | The one with TEN Arms | A contradiction of popular opinion

Doshobhuja | The one with TEN Arms | A contradiction of popular opinion

Yesterday was Mahalaya. Technically this means Pitripaksha has ended and Devipaksha has begun. I started my day with the Sanskrit recitation of Birendra Krishna Bhadra’s Mahishashura Mardini in the dawn. As I was pondering over the shlokas and their meaning, I was thinking of addressing