Eye donation to Netaji’s ‘Great Escape’, Kolkata Puja pandals to display touching themes
Pick your must-see pandal from Salt Lake FD Block, Dum Dum or Jodhpur Park
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Published 06.10.23, 06:45 PM
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The theme of the puja conducted by Jodhpur Park Saradiya Utsab Committee this year is ‘Punorjonmo’ (Rebirth). Elucidating on the theme, club general secretary Sumanta Ray said: ‘The idea of the theme is to raise awareness about eye donation. Encourage people to donate eyes to give the gift of sight to the blind. Through abstract painting, the pandal will have different eyes drawn as props. The eyes of the idol are given focus to make it look more artistic. The process of eye donation will also be illustrated in the pandal through paintings and props’
Soumyajit Dey
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The theme of Dum Dum Park Tarun Dal this year is ‘Kalbela - A Silver Lining on Dark Horizon: Stories of Unseen Rebels’. Netaji’s ‘Great Escape’ is portrayed through the panels showing the Wanderer car in which he was driven from Calcutta to Gomoh station in erstwhile Bihar, hoardings with the names of the places Netaji went to while escaping, Captain Lakshmi Swaminathan with other members of the Azad Hind Fauj
Amit Datta
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Six gigantic Bankura horses in black guard the Salt Lake FD Block’s Durga Puja pandal this year. Its theme is ‘Jibon Sangramer Aparoop Krishtir Golpo Gatha’. The interiors have been done with dokra-like larger-than-life figurines of musicians, animals and gods and goddesses
Amit Datta
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The theme for Selimpore Pally Durga Puja this year is ‘Anandadrishti’. Fantastic decorations of lights would portray gigantic eyes, right from the side panels to the ceilings.
Soumyajit Dey
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The theme for Dum Dum Bharat Chakra Club this year is ‘Bhranti’ (fallacy). The theme portrays an illusion of human beings. ‘The pandal and props show how we all are puppets in the hands of the almighty. Puppets and paintings will tell traditional legends,’ said Manoj Chakraborty, club joint secretary. ‘We are working with illusions this time. We, as humans love to take credit of everything we do but things happen according to the will of the almighty. So we will have paintings narrating legendary stories of the human evolution that will portray the Supreme Power’s intervention’
