{"id":11404,"date":"2012-10-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/10\/25\/durga-puja-themes-in-kolkata-go-beyond-state-s-borders\/"},"modified":"2012-10-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T12:00:00","slug":"durga-puja-themes-in-kolkata-go-beyond-state-s-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/10\/25\/durga-puja-themes-in-kolkata-go-beyond-state-s-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Durga Puja Themes In Kolkata Go Beyond State&#8217;s Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianexpress.com\/story-print\/1020030\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KOLKATA, INDIA, October 21, 2012 (Indian Express): Making a departure, prominent Durga Puja committees this year have modeled their pandals on the famous structures found across the country, compared to past years when aesthetically-designed mandaps were the rule. Singhi Park Sarbojanin Durga Puja, one of the biggest crowd-pullers, this time designed its pandal after the famous Meenakshi Amman Temple of Madurai. &#8220;In the rat race of theme pujas, we made a difference by holding the mirror to the heritage structures of the country. We are sticking to the Shabeki (traditional) style of Devi Aradhana (paying our obeisance),&#8221; joint secretary of Singhi Park Bhaskar Nandi said.<\/p>\n<p>The puja committee is also sticking to the Deity-making tradition of a 23-foot Ekchalapattern of Durga image crafted by famous Kumartuli artisan Mohan Bansi Rudra Pal. Kumartuli Park in north Kolkata&#8217;s dingy lanes off Chitpur recreated a marble Durga temple of Gujarat blending Gujarati and Bengali architectural styles. <\/p>\n<p>Another big puja in the south, Ballygunge Cultural Association, has brought alive the rural landscape of Rajasthan with typical props like bandhini sarees, paintings, wooden horses and peacocks.<\/p>\n<p>Bidding to outdo rival neighbour Singhi Park, senior West Bengal minister Subrata Mukherjee&#8217;s puja, Ekdalia Evergreen, another must-see for pandal-hoppers, has recreated the Sripuram Lakshinarayani temple. &#8220;The Vellore edifice, which is mostly made of gold, has been replicated in full, and from a distance you can&#8217;t make out the real from the replica,&#8221; a puja committee spokesman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KOLKATA, INDIA, October 21, 2012 (Indian Express): Making a departure, prominent Durga Puja committees this year have modeled their,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}