The city is in the grip of the festive spirit of Navratri. Apart from the nine nights of raas-garba, Durga puja will begin on Friday which the Bengali community celebrates each year with great fervour and enthusiasm.
The city is in the grip of the festive spirit of Navratri. Apart from the nine nights of raas-garba, Durga puja will begin on Friday which the Bengali community celebrates each year with great fervour and enthusiasm.
Mandaps are being set up at various places. Various cultural activities and performances will mark Durga puja celebrations in the city. Cultural programmes ranging from drama, dance, Bengali songs and many others have been included in the five-day schedule by Bengali associations of the city.
The chairman of Greater Ahmedabad Bengal Association (GABA) Charitable Trust, Joy Aich said, “This year, we will have renowned artistes from Bengal. The internationally acclaimed Amala Shankar group of Kolkata will be in the city for a dance programme on Sunday.”
Drama, the traditional ‘Dhunuchi’ dance and a recital of Bengali songs are also on the cards. Aich said mandals will get 3,000 visitors daily who will be given traditional ‘prasad’ of ‘panktibhojan’- sumptuous piping-hot kichdi with tastefully cooked vegetables followed by sweets. GABA will celebrate Durga puja at the open plot near 132 ft ring road, Naranpura.
The Bengal Cultural Association (BCA), Ahmedabad will celebrate the festival in a grand way marking its 75th year of celebration. The festival wing of the association will organise sangeet, Durga ‘kalparambha’ puja and other cultural programmes. The general secretary of BCA, Kanak Adhikary said, “Singers and performers from Kolkata have been called to entertain the thousands of Bengalis residing in the city.” BCA will inaugurate its cultural programme on Wednesday evening with a drama on Swami Vivekananda. The association is celebrating Durga puja at Ahmedabad Education Society (AES) ground in Vastrapur.
Adhikary also said that artists from Bengal were in the city for the past three weeks to make a 17-foot tall idol. “The idol has been made using grass, bamboo and clay as it is made in West Bengal,” he added.
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