Durga Puja....

In every culture there are certain days which are regarded as a very special days of their calendar… every religion has their own customs and rituals… every country celebrates different types of Festivals according to their time period…

Just like Christmas and Id and any other customs like others all over the world…India also celebrates its rituals and customs and a complete festive season occurs in different times of the year in India… As India is a multi – religion country with its vast different cultures and rituals so every time in India people enjoys different festivals within the country…. Among all other festivals there is another huge festival that all over the people of the country enjoys is…”Durga Puja”. It is one of the most big and lively festival within India… though it is been mainly celebrated in West Bengal… but all parts of the country enjoys this” Puja” (worship) with huge celebration and with full of joy. This festival comes at the end of the year mostly in the months of September – October. In this festival Goddess Devi Durga is been worshipped and it is been said in the Hindu religion that this time Devi Durga comes with her 4 children to visit her maternal home on the earth from “Kailash”… which is an imaginary place where Devi Durga lives with her husband Lord Shiva… this festival is a Hindu festival but there is no such restrictions of enjoying this festival… every people enjoys this festival equally…

In Kolkata and in other parts of the country this Puja is been celebrated with full of lives and with immense enjoyment… and in several areas in Kolkata “Pandals” are made where the Idol of Goddess Durga is been worshipped… people from everywhere visits these pandals to say their prayers and to see Goddess Durga and to invite her cordially to the world of humans… this is believed that when Devi comes She spreads love and fraternity all over the places on the earth and creates peace and secures Her worshippers and devotees from every kind of evils and ominous forces…

In Kolkata this festival is been said as the “Festival of Joy” and delights everybody specially the children… this festival is quite a long awaited festival for everyone. People wait a whole year only for this festival. Specially Bengali s enjoys this festival immensely and buys new cloths for themselves and for their friend and relatives and exchange presents among each other’s and gives treat to their friends and relatives with different delicious foods and desserts… like: luchi (a kind of fried bread), alur dom (potato curry), shukto( a kind of vegetable curry), beguni (egg plant / brinjal fry), polao / ghee bhat( fried rice), kopi and potoler danla( a cauliflower curry), ilish mach bhaja / bhape / doi ilish( Ilesha fish) , chingri macher malaikari ( shrimp ‘s curry) etc..And in desserts they takes roshogolla , mishit doi, nolen gurer shondesh,etc and lastly they end with pan as a mint.

But before the beginning of the celebration they believe the starting of Devi Pokhsha which actually starts from the time of “Mahalaya” and this indicates the end of “Pitri pokhsha” and starting of “Devi pokhsha” when the Puja of Goddess Durga happens. This puja lasts for 5 days… the first day is called ‘Panchumi’, second day as ‘Shoshti’, third day as ‘Shaptumi’, forth day as’ Ashtumi’ and fifth day as ‘Nabami’ and the last day when the puja ends that day is called as ‘Bijoya’ and this is the most important as well as sorrowful day for everybody because it is said that on this day Devi returns to Her home in Kailash and after a long gap of a year She will visit once again…. This day the festival finally ends and this is mainly a thanks giving day where everybody bids thanks to one another and does “Pronam “to the elders and men also does “kolakuli” with one another to create brotherhood and fraternity among themselves for the rest of the year and to maintain peace among themselves.This is how for a year Puja ends and countdown starts for the next year for this festival to come once again in their lives and again to spread happiness among the people…whether they are rich or poor or of different religion or of different customs…

Global Warming.....to think!!!

Today the global warming has become a great issue for the world…there are many people who are searching the root causes of this and on the basis of this they found some mind blowing facts… which are quite threatening to our existence in the world. Several studies are been made and the shocking incidents which have emerged are the earth’s most coolest places are melting and the existence of living beings is coming to a stake… what’s your view?

About Civilizations....

There are so many things in and around us which we might never be able to come across………. There are plenty of unknown facts that are yet to be revealed…yet to be unturned. But man is still trying hard to find out the root causes according to his limits. He is every day trying to excavate new things but still there are so many things that are left to do….
If we take the example of the incidents of different inventions of till now that what was been done by the mankind…we will find that still now what man had done gives us certain matter of study and also from where we can get at least some clues related to it. There are many facts which are still not invented. Though it is been said by many expeditors or the inventors that they had revealed many truths……..but the fact is that there is no exact cause that is been given…which can only arise a question ….do they really know the truth? The truth of the diminishing of so many civilizations from the heart of the world … because there are no such evidences that can be traced from these… are they aware of the fact that due to what reason these civilizations came under destruction? Can anybody who is attach with the expeditions tell that what made those big and so called famous civilizations to come to their uncertain future of the past? I had gone through an article where it has been depicted the picture of the collapse of the Egyptian Civilization and where it has been said that the fact of the collapse of this civilization was not a foreign invasion or not because of the involvement in a major war or of any kind of military activities or any sort of isolation from the rest of the world caused by certain natural barriers … but instead of all these root causes of the collapse what is been ultimately said was the Social Revolution. It has been also said that the entire structure of the then Egyptian society was destroyed. It is also said regarding this was …the chaos which took place within the society turned the entire civilization again into a complete boorishness.
Not only the Egyptian Civilization but also many other big Civilizations unlike this contains several different views and predictions and plenty of comments are been made regarding their diminishment which can come under contradictions and also quite debating...but still no such conclusion can be extracted from those various comments that are actually made by the famous historians or by the other related persons to this…

Still there are so many questions left which are yet to be revealed and is still very much difficult to find out their answers. Different people have different thoughts…….some of them states their views by finding some new materials or elemental proofs from the dark debris of those Civilizations and some of them are who only try to conjecture the root causes of destruction.
But nobody is even been able to give the final answer of all these questions. Even I am also trying to find out these answers and circling around within the same loop … still to know many facts and am trying to find out the actual answer….

Remembering Incidents....

Isn’t it strange sometimes that so many things happen within the world on a same time one after another … and that becomes the news of day to day phenomenon? Whether that might be the news of destruction or the news of construction… but the world goes on… for a particular time period the news contains certain values for everyone or creates some interest … but with the passing of time and days that news which was the centre of interests for everyone turns fade… nobody remembers it… but if I turn around the other side of the same coin then there will be noticed that there are many such incidents that took place before in many parts of the world are still contains much values as well as are still meaningful to the world… news may be of new experiments or terrible devastations or any sort of criminal activities or any kind of natural incidents whatever they might be are always remains within the memories of the world …these incidents people are compelled to recollect every time as the resemblance happens every moment… what to do? If we take the example of natural phenomena then that might be categorized under the “laws of nature”… but if we take the incidents of terrorist’s attacks then we can’t say it as a natural one… because those are manmade incidents.
Another thing that occurs simultaneously with these incidents … are the criticisms or in some cases are of appreciation… both are the two sides of the same coin…let’s take, an incident has the occurred and on regard to this some sect of people appreciates it and some of the others criticize it… both happen side by side but nobody thinks that for what they are actually doing all these? Are these incidents would change the figure or will remain the same… what about those who faced these situations… or what will happen to them who suffered from these… does anybody really think of it? ………… What’s your view?