This year, the Durga Puja Pandal in Kolkata’s Kashi Bose Lane is emphasizing the importance of protecting the soil. The pandal’s theme is “Maa,” as designed by architect Aditi Chakraborty, and the mandap has been decked with various shades of earth. A symbiotic relationship exists between soil and mother. It had a connection to human life. The Kashi Bose Lane Mandap was being constructed using that soil.
Change from yellow to white to blue, emerging one after the other. This is a fixture in the Puja Mandap on Kashi Bose Lane. According to businesspeople, this is the first initiative of its kind in Durga Puja history. Unmixed natural coloured soil is used to decorate the mandap.
When you enter the mandap, there are waves of clay in various colors. The mandap contained musical instruments that were being decorated. The organizers assert that only environmentally friendly materials were used to build the pandal.
One of the crucial days for the celebrations of Durga Puja is Maha Saptami, often referred to as Saptami of Durgapuja. On Maha Saptami, the Maha Puja (also referred to as the Great Ceremony) begins. Hindus celebrate Durga Puja, a festival in which Goddess Durga is worshipped. She guards us against all evil forces and bestows tremendous happiness, luck, and prosperity in life. We honour the ten-armed mother goddess on this day and rejoice in her defeat of the nefarious buffalo demon Mahishasura.
According to legend, in the late 1500s, Goddess Durga was worshipped in her most elaborate form ever. According to folklore, the original Durga Puja in Bengal was started by the landlords, or zamindar, of Dinajpur and Malda. Another report claims that the first Sharadiya or Autumn Durga Puja was held in Bengal in around 1606 and was organised by Raja Kangshanarayan of Taherpur or Bhabananda Mazumdar of Nadiya.