Durga Puja Pandal

Durga Puja 2021: Kolkata pandal highlights first ever Durgotsav celebrated over four centuries ago

The Behala Barisha Sarbojanin Durgostab Committee in Kolkata has set up a pandal on the theme of the Rajshahi Durga Puja, where many believe the first celebrations of the festival began nearly 415 years ago.

Durga Puja pandals become platform to highlight socio-political concerns, as Kolkata artists play with material and ideas

The platform of Durga Puja has been used to draw people's attention to pressing socio-political issues, besides recreating film sets, famous monuments, and real geographical locations.

Durga Puja committee in Kolkata designs pandal to raise awareness about harmful effects of mobile tower radiation on birds

The Barisha club has designed the exterior of its Durga Puja pandal with an artificial mobile tower and a dish TV antenna along with skeletons of hundreds of birds stuck on the tower who die due to high radiation.

Kolkata doctors protest over clay model donning white apron, taking money in Durga puja pandal

A clay model resembling a doctor and taking money in Durga Puja pandal has triggered protests from the medical fraternity

Durga Puja tips that will make pandal hopping in Mumbai more fun

Mumbai’s Dura Puja pandals may not have the same charm as those in Kolkata, but it’s not hard to create the ‘adda’ when Bengalis in the city come together. To urge you to be part of one, we recommend you go Pandal Hopping this year and eat.

Durga Puja pandal sports Mamata's favourite colour

The pink city of Jaipur has been recreated in blue in a puja pandal in south Kolkata where Goddess Durga also wears a sari of a matching colour.