I took a festive leave from the blogging world for the 5-day-long Durga Puja celebration. The whole city of Kolkata goes through an incredible makeover for these five days. Every nook and corner of the city shines and sings the hymns of happiness. Every pandal exhibits creativity at its best and the city itself becomes an open-air exhibition of art and architecture. Perhaps, there is no other place in the world that becomes so astoundingly beautiful on the onset of such magnanimous festivity. Durga Puja exudes a sense of peace, harmony, and the triumph of good over evil. Goddess Durga is also regarded as the ultimate incarnation of femininity, the Divine Feminine, Adi ParaShakti.
As the cerulean sky got scattered with clouds, dancing in a desultory fashion with the golden hue of the setting sun, the evening marked an end to the biggest festival of the Bengalis, Durga Puja. Here is a glimpse of some of the best artistic creations of the city.
Here’s wishing all my friends, fellow bloggers and readers a happy Bijaya Dashami (end of the Puja). May Goddess Durga’s blessings be showered on you. Subho Bijaya.. 🙂
The Divine Goddess, The Third Eye Symbolizes Ultimate Divinity and Feminine Power
Ajeya Sanghati Club, Haridebpur
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Thanks for sharing great pics Maniparna – blessings to you and your family 🙂
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Thank you…so happy that you liked the pictures… blessings to you too… 🙂
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Awesome pics…I can feel the festive spirit…Happy Diwali:-)
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Thank you…wish you a safe and happy Diwali… 🙂
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Fantastic images from the pooja.
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Thanks for sharing these photographs! I have heard much about the Durga Puja celebrations in Kolkata. I wish to witness the festival myself, someday. 🙂 Till then, these photographs will do!
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Great pics, Maniparna. Really lovely…..
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Stunning photos! I wish to be there for the celebrations some day 🙂
Happy Vijayadasami 🙂
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Wow! How I ‘d love to see this is person 🙂
Amazing pics Mani!
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Wow, wow, WOW! Such a beautiful post Mani, both the pictures and the words! Thank you so much for taking me along!! 🙂
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Great pics, Maniparna. Really lovely.
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Beautiful pictures …
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Beautiful pix! Wish I could ever visit a real Pandal! The ones in Bombay are beautiful enough, but not to the standard of the original in Kolkata.
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Beautiful pics.
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Beautiful pictures dear. Subho Bijoya 🙂
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Thank you for sharing these wonderful pics! The festive spirit is amazing 🙂
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Beautiful…nice pics!
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Amazing! Thank you so much for showing!
I haven’t seen the pujos of Kolkata in real yet, but I hope to some day!
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Stunning photos Maniparna! Glad you made it possible for me to see the Kolkata Durga Pujas. Shush Bijoya to you.
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Grand and memorable images. Sadly, they will all be discarded unlike human vanity. Thanks for sharing.
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Super pictures dear… Kolkatta indeed seems to shine with glory during the festivities. Hope you had a great one 🙂
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nice walkthrough
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The Best Photos of Goddess Durga,and the timely Post, Maniparna.. Festival Greetings!
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I’d love to experience this, it looks so beautiful. You have an eye for a wonderful photo.
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Thank you…:-) It’s really an experience to be in the city during the Puja time… 🙂
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After the festival … Cradle nice photo prices sky. 🙂
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🙂 True that…thanks for stopping by… 🙂
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Exquisite all of them. Subho Bijaya.
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Thanks, Chaitali…Subho Bijaya… 🙂
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stunning
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Thank you… 🙂
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Happy Happy Festival my friend!! 🙂 beautiful photos 🙂
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Thank you so much…..enjoyed a lot… 😀
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5 day’s festive leave wowo.. lucky you.. and beautiful pictures ..what a celebration. .
Thank you for sharing. ..The sky too looks beautiful nature too was enjoying the festival. .
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Truly, Nature seems to be at her best during this time of the year…enjoyed a lot..:-D Thanks so much for stopping by… 🙂
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Happy Bijaya Dashami. Incredible pics and enjoy Pujo. I’d love to visit, someday. It’s magnificent.
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Thanks, Vishal…happy Bijaya Dashami..:-) visit Kolkata during puja time at least once…it would be a memorable experience.. 🙂
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Great pictures… Thank you for sharing and wishing you a very happy Vijayadashami… 🙂
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Glad you enjoyed the pictures… 🙂
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What spectacular shots.
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Thanks a lot…. 🙂
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❤ 🙂
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Subho Bijoya Maniparna.
Looking at the pictures, I realize that Durga Pujo in Kolkata is something very different from Pujo in other parts of the country.Strangely I have never been to Kolkata during Pujo. Though in CR Park we had around 7-8 Pujos, but this decor is simply out of the world.
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This is incredible, Somali! Never been to Kolkata during pujo! 😀 Subho bijaya to you and your family…wish you all a wonderful and prosperous year ahead… 🙂
Was completely away from the blogging world for some days..will try to catch up with your beautiful posts, soon… 🙂
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Incredible na unbelievable, and I am already feeling somewhat uneasy about it. Good that you took a break from blogging to enjoy the Pujo to the fullest. 🙂
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Great news! I’ve just downloaded the Kindle version..:) Thank you so muchhhhh 🙂
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Thank you. 🙂
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Indeed it becomes the most beautiful place on earth with such colours and with such light, making earth look decked up for the arrival of goddess Durga…Yes, each pandal looks stunningly beautiful and one can see such artistic creations and so much imagination that goes behind each idol…
One just cannot escape the festivity and fervor that lands in Kolkatta during these ten hands, blogging and all other engagement needs that break to break away and indulge in the such magnanimity of festivity and joy…
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You have got the essence of the Puja, Nihar…:-D It’s really impossible to keep someone confined at home writing down a blog or something like that. 😛 The crowd is enormous energetic and one can feel life so much during these days…it’s like a dreamland.
Thanks so much for stopping by, will try to catch up with your posts soon… 🙂
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I can understand, it would be a crime to prison the freedom when the world is decorated and the fervor at its best…the energy level and the color, the music and of course the food we get lost indeed it is a dreamland.
Never easy to get back to routine after such a wonderful indulgence with goodies of life…
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The sky in the final moments of the special Durga Puja festival was an inspiring natural symbol of farewell celebration.
Maniparna, my favorite photograph was of a beautiful pastel peacock (or pheasant) with intricate lace along edges. You took outstanding photos and I appreciated the beauty you shared with us, my dear. 🙂
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Maybe it is a Phoenix bird rising? 🙂 thanks again.♡
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It was a peacock… beautifully crafted… 🙂
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Thank you, Robin..there were so many exotic exhibition of creativity all over the city… I just managed to click a few…:-) so happy to know that you enjoyed the pictures… 🙂
Will catch up with your posts soon… 🙂
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I am happy to find out it was a peacock, which I had guessed in my first comment. The intricate designs were so beautiful and many of the Goddess were so colorful and exotic looking. 🙂 Take care, dear. ♡
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A wonderful sharing, Maniparna
Thank You
lots of love
john
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Thanks…glad you enjoyed the pictures…. 🙂
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What a way to bid farewell to the festivities, Especially with that sky wow! :O
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Loved the way the sky decorated itself on the last day… and it always feels so empty after some wonderful festive days.. 🙂
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It’s perfect 🙂
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🙂 True that…
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Thank you for your kind best wishes; the celebration looks wonderfully colourful and exotic! 🙂
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Thanks a lot…glad you liked the pictures…the city looks like a dreamland during this time… 🙂
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I am watching right now. 🙂
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Great…Subho bijaya… 🙂
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Subho bijoya too
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🙂 …
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