Puja spirit in low ebb in Dibrugarh
Staff correspondent
DIBRUGARH, Sept 25 – The spirit of puja festival here is relatively on a low ebb this year. The city this season has failed to adorn pandals in a striking, appealing and glamorous way as before. The puja mandaps have failed to draw the usual crowd compared to past years. There are some eighty-five puja pandals within the city’s municipal area. The outlying areas have thirty-odd more.
The structural designs, decorations, lighting and exhibitions or shows have somehow not been able to lure crowds at least on the Maha Saptami today. Several buildings, streets and houses used to be illuminated with dazzling lights during the Durga puja, which is missing this year round. Gone are those days, when balloons, toys and sweets were seen being sold from makeshift shops on almost every street. Unlike yesteryears, the expected noise and celebrations clamor from the puja enthusiasts is comparatively declining.
Most of the puja committees have cut down the cost estimate of putting up puja pandals in the city. The reason is not that they have become less devout. Lack of adequate donations is what Raju Kejriwal, the president of Sarbojanin Durga Puja, New Market, cited the reason. “Almost all donors have vertically reduced their contribution towards erecting puja pandals”, Kejriwal said. Every puja committee is dependent on donations and if contributions do not come adequately, the decorations of pandals would definitely go down.
On the other hand, Jyotinagar Sarbonini Durga Puja pandal was seen drawing some crowd but not for its extraordinary designs and decorations. People were rushing to watch the acts of claimed miracle performer Pandit Prakash Sharma of Madhya Pradesh who reportedly is swallows pieces or iron, blades, marble and alpin in front of crowd. Artistes of high repute from Madhya Pradesh have also been invited at the Jyotinagar puja mandap to perform their multi music talent using bells.?? The devotees mostly thronged among all, the puja pandal at?the Old Government Boy’s High School ground. But, the scene here this evening is that the huge crowds at the puja venues did not swell, as in the earlier years. ASSAM TRIBUNE
Staff correspondent
DIBRUGARH, Sept 25 – The spirit of puja festival here is relatively on a low ebb this year. The city this season has failed to adorn pandals in a striking, appealing and glamorous way as before. The puja mandaps have failed to draw the usual crowd compared to past years. There are some eighty-five puja pandals within the city’s municipal area. The outlying areas have thirty-odd more.
The structural designs, decorations, lighting and exhibitions or shows have somehow not been able to lure crowds at least on the Maha Saptami today. Several buildings, streets and houses used to be illuminated with dazzling lights during the Durga puja, which is missing this year round. Gone are those days, when balloons, toys and sweets were seen being sold from makeshift shops on almost every street. Unlike yesteryears, the expected noise and celebrations clamor from the puja enthusiasts is comparatively declining.
Most of the puja committees have cut down the cost estimate of putting up puja pandals in the city. The reason is not that they have become less devout. Lack of adequate donations is what Raju Kejriwal, the president of Sarbojanin Durga Puja, New Market, cited the reason. “Almost all donors have vertically reduced their contribution towards erecting puja pandals”, Kejriwal said. Every puja committee is dependent on donations and if contributions do not come adequately, the decorations of pandals would definitely go down.
On the other hand, Jyotinagar Sarbonini Durga Puja pandal was seen drawing some crowd but not for its extraordinary designs and decorations. People were rushing to watch the acts of claimed miracle performer Pandit Prakash Sharma of Madhya Pradesh who reportedly is swallows pieces or iron, blades, marble and alpin in front of crowd. Artistes of high repute from Madhya Pradesh have also been invited at the Jyotinagar puja mandap to perform their multi music talent using bells.?? The devotees mostly thronged among all, the puja pandal at?the Old Government Boy’s High School ground. But, the scene here this evening is that the huge crowds at the puja venues did not swell, as in the earlier years. ASSAM TRIBUNE
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