Cool 5 Ways to Experience Kolkata's Durga Puja Festival

On the off chance that you need to encounter Kolkata Durga Puja festival, in a perfect world you ought to be in the city no less than seven days before the celebration begins so you can see the completing touches put on the icons of the goddess. On the off chance that that is unrealistic, there are still a lot of different approaches to appreciate it - throughout the night! Here's the best of them.

The least difficult approach to take an interest in the festival is to make a Durga Puja celebration visit. For example, the ones composed by the West Bengal Tourism Development Corporation (see a rundown of visits and make online appointments here or see more data about the visits here), Calcutta Photo Tours, Walks of Kolkata, and Let's Meet Up Tours. More data adjoin Durga Puja, including visits, is likewise accessible on West Bengal Tourism's Durga Puja site.

Likewise, Belur Math in Kolkata holds a broad program of ceremonies for Durga Puja, including a unique Kumari Puja on September 28, 2017.

The perfectly high-quality icons of Goddess Durga beyond any doubt are staggering. In any case, you'll welcome them considerably more on the off chance that you see the exertion that goes into making them. Luckily, this isn't difficult to do. The greater part of them created in one range - Kumartuli in north Kolkata, around 30 minutes drive from the downtown area. The name signifies "potter's region, " and as it recommends, the zone was settled by a gathering of potters. These days around 150 potter families live there. If you go there on the occasion of Mahalaya (around seven days before Durga Puja begins), you'll have the capacity to see the eyes drawn onto the statues in a promising custom called Chokkhu Daan.

• At the point when: September 19, 2017

The feature of Durga Puja is no uncertainty going by the various presentations (pandals) of Goddess Durga, each with an extraordinary subject or beautifying style. This movement is typically alluded to a "pandal bouncing." There is an enormous number of pandals in Kolkata, so it's just conceivable to visit a small amount of them - and still, after all, that it requires a touch of essential arranging as they're spread out everywhere throughout the city. You'll locate the most evidently understood ones in the north and south Kolkata, which advantageously associated with the Metro railroad. The most popular time for pandal bouncing is in the night when they're lit up. If you go amid the day, you can stay away from a significant part of the group.

• At the point when: September 26-29, 2017

While Kolkata's open Durga pujas tend to get all the consideration, the customary "Bondi Bari" pujas in the city's magnificent old private houses are likewise actually worth encountering. The chateaus have a place with prosperous noble zamindar (landowner) families who have been carrying on the pujas for a considerable length of time. They're spread out crosswise over Kolkata (and also other real towns in Bengal). Two of the most popular ones are Sovabazar Raj Bari and Rani Rashmoni Bari. And additionally these, West Bengal Tourism runs half-day transport visits in the morning and evening to visit Khelat Ghosh Bari, Chhatubabu Latubabur Puja, Chandra Bari, and Thanthania Dutta Bari.

• At the point when: September 26-29, 2017

There's never an excellent time to test Kolkata's renowned Bengali food than Durga Puja. The celebration thought to finished without nourishment! You'll locate a wide cluster of it wherever - in the city, at the pandals, and in forte Bengali eateries. Pandal jumping gets tiring, so eating while you're out on the town is an individual requirement. The sustenance served to guests at the pandals is called blog (offerings to the god which dispersed). 

It ordinarily comprises of blended vegetable curry, a sweet dish, singed thing, and chutney. Kolkata's Bengali eateries have select Durga Puja menus stuffed brimming with valid treats - both smorgasbord and individually. Bengali desserts likewise expended in immense amounts amid the celebration!

On the most recent day of Durga Puja, known as Dashami, the festivities begin with married ladies putting red sindoor (powder) on the symbols of Goddess Durga. They at that point spread it on each other. At night, the icons inundated in the water. A standout amongst the most well-known submersion focuses Babu Ghat (halfway situated close Eden Garden), in spite of the fact that you'll have the capacity to get the activity at any of the ghats along the waterway. An excellent method for seeing it is by pontoon. West Bengal Tourism Development Corporation works uncommon drenching pontoon travels down the waterway.

• At the point when: September 30, 2017