Mahalaya In Bengal

Durga Puja 2020: Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Durga Puja will be different this year. In the 'new normal', Bengalis living outside India are busy taking online lessons to perform Durga Puja themselves. COVID-19 has forced the priests from West Bengal to cancel their international travel plans. For decades, priests from the state used to travel to...

Unable to buck the trend, some old 'barowari' Durga pujas of north Kolkata, are turning to theme this year.

Goddess Durga is on her way, invoked this morning, on Mahalaya, with that magical rendition of shlokas and songs on the radio that Bengalis have woken up to on this auspicious day for the last 84 years.

For most, television has consigned the transistor radio to the dustbin. But today, in every Bengali home, the transistor was brought out, dusted and switched at 4 am to listen to Mahalaya, the opus of hymns and sholkas heralding Bengal's annual festival, the Durga Puja.

Durga Puja 2020: Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Durga Puja will be different this year. In the 'new normal', Bengalis living outside India are busy taking online lessons to perform Durga Puja themselves. COVID-19 has forced the priests from West Bengal to cancel their international travel plans. For decades, priests from the state used to travel to...

Unable to buck the trend, some old 'barowari' Durga pujas of north Kolkata, are turning to theme this year.

Goddess Durga is on her way, invoked this morning, on Mahalaya, with that magical rendition of shlokas and songs on the radio that Bengalis have woken up to on this auspicious day for the last 84 years.

For most, television has consigned the transistor radio to the dustbin. But today, in every Bengali home, the transistor was brought out, dusted and switched at 4 am to listen to Mahalaya, the opus of hymns and sholkas heralding Bengal's annual festival, the Durga Puja.