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Saha, Sukanya. "DURGA PUJA IN KOLKATA: A CULTURAL DIASPORA OF CELEBRATION." SOCIETY AND CULTURE DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA 2, no. 2 (2022): 355–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.47509/scdi.2022.v02i02.09.

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Kolkata is one of the most popular cities in the world when it comes to celebrating life. And Durga Puja is not just the emotion of the Bengali community; rather it is a larger than life experience for whoever attends it. UNESCO has also accredited Kolkata Durga Puja as the ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Community’. In this paper, I have tried to cover some of the aspects of Durga Puja. First a brief introduction has been given on Durga Puja in Kolkata followed by the basic and detailed identification and description of the Goddess and the process, mentioning the intrinsic repertoires fo

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RAY, MANAS. "Goddess in the City: Durga pujas of contemporary Kolkata." Modern Asian Studies 51, no. 4 (2017): 1126–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x16000913.

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Durga puja, or the worship of goddess Durga, is the single most important festival in Bengal's rich and diverse religious calendar. It is not just that her temples are strewn all over this part of the world. In fact, goddess Kali, with whom she shares a complementary history, is easily more popular in this regard. But as a one-off festivity, Durga puja outstrips anything that happens in Bengali life in terms of pomp, glamour, and popularity. And with huge diasporic populations spread across the world, she is now also a squarely international phenomenon, with her puja being celebrated wherever

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Etika, Tiwi. "Studi Komparasi Hari Raya Galungan di Bali dan Wijaya Dasami India." Dharma Duta 20, no. 1 (2022): 19–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.33363/dd.v20i1.778.

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Galungan is a Balinese holiday, celebrating the victory of dharma (virtue) over adharma (evil). It is similar to Wijaya Dasami (Wijaya Dashami) and Durga Puja Nawaratri in India, celebrated by Hindus in other parts of the world. The word Dussehra is a variant of Dashahara which is a compound Sanskrit word meaning "ten days". Dus has the meaning "bad, evil, and sinful" and Hara means "removing, destroying", connoting "removing the bad, destroying the evil, sinful. In most of northern and western India, Dasha-Hara (literally, ten days) is celebrated in honor of Rama. Vijaya Dasami is observed af

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Bhattacharya, Tithi. "Tracking the Goddess: Religion, Community, and Identity in the Durga Puja Ceremonies of Nineteenth-Century Calcutta." Journal of Asian Studies 66, no. 4 (2007): 919–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911807001258.

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Focusing on colonial Calcutta in the later decades of the nineteenth century, this essay explores the evolution of a particular festival, the Durga Puja, to explore the ways in which religion negotiated its place in the ideological determinants of modernity. The essay surveys the evolution of the goddess Durga from premodern times and shows why and how the perception of both the deity (in gender terms) and the festival (in historical terms) had to be recalibrated following the imperatives of new classes and new discursive parameters. While the essay interrogates the development of new particul

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Saswati, Bordoloi. "The Traditional Songs of the Assamese: Voice and Connection." International Journal of Social Science And Human Research 05, no. 09 (2022): 4238–43. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7113136.

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The Traditional Songs of the Assamese: Voice and Connection The folk songs of Assam are mainly associated with rites and rituals; these folk songs reflect the livelihood of the Assamese community. The songs are related to Shitala Puja, Koli burhi nritya, Gopini naam, biya naam and Bihu geet, which have a unique position in traditional singing among the Assamese community. Sitala is a folk goddess and it is believed that she has is an intimidating presence who distributes infected pulses in village markets, or sends hordes of disease-demons, thus causing outbreaks of smallpox and other contagio

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Wessman, Anna, Xenia Zeiler, Suzie Thomas, and Pilvi Vainonen. "The Durga Puja pop-up exhibition at the National Museum of Finland. Designing and hosting an exhibition as university educationmuseum collaboration." Nordisk Museologi 29, no. 2 (2020): 96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/nm.8445.

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In autumn 2018, eight Museum Studies students from the University of Helsinki had the opportunity to put theory into practice and to gain hands-on experience making a real exhibition. The ‘Museum Content Planning’ course was a collaborative project between the National Museum of Finland and the university in which the students, together with the museum staff, built a pop-up exhibition about the Indian festival Durga Puja in only five weeks. The exhibition showed in the National Museum for two weeks, and the students were involved in most stages of the exhibition’s development. They also blogge

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Mondal, Astom, and Sankar Narayan Sinha. "IMPACT OF IDOL IMMERSION ON WATER AND SEDIMENT QUALITY IN THE RIVER MAYURAKSHI AT SAINTHIA, DIST. BIRBHUM, WEST BENGAL, INDIA." International Journal of Engineering Technologies and Management Research 7, no. 7 (2020): 50–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/ijetmr.v7.i7.2020.718.

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The country of India is the unique where different cultural heritage as well as festivals were found. Mainly the West Bengal state is known as various religious festivals, but Durga Puja is one of the biggest and end of this festival idol are immersed in the water bodies. Sainthia town found in the district of Birbhun, West Bengal, India which is present in the south bank of the Mayurakshi river. The idol immersion mainly effect on water as well as sediment quality of this river Mayurakshi near railway bridge at Sainthia. The study will be discussed for immersion effect of this sampling statio

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Chattopadhyay, Swati. "Ephemeral by design." Architectural Research Quarterly 26, no. 1 (2022): 30–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135522000215.

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Between the months of September and October, Kolkata celebrates the Hindu religious festival of Durgapuja on a grand scale. Organised by local clubs and neighbourhood voluntary associations, approximately 2,500 temporary structures – pandals – are built for the worship or puja of the goddess Durga and her entourage. Of these about two thousand occupy the city’s public spaces: streets, parks, green islands, and vacant lots. A large number of the pandals are finely engineered structures that are fabulously decorated and attract hundreds of thousands of visitors each day of the festivities. It ta

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Rajpoot, Subhadra. "Impact Assessment of Diwali Fireworks Emissions on the Air at Special Locations in Delhi During Three Consecutive Years." Oriental Journal Of Chemistry 39, no. 2 (2023): 417–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/ojc/390221.

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India is renowned as a place of celebrations. Festivals commemorate not only the change of the seasons but also the harvest, peace, and the birthdays of saints, gurus, prophets, as well as gods and goddesses. When it comes to their religious beliefs, Indians are noted for having a varied range of customs, including fasting, abstinence, and other behaviours. One of the biggest Hindu holidays, Diwali, takes place every year between October and January. The Hindu holidays of Navratri, Dussehra, Durga Puja, and Diwali all fall during these months. A significant amount of dry garbage is produced du

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Dutta, Deep, Krishna Biswas, Meha Sharma, Robin Maskey, Manash Baruah, and Mohammod Amin. "Managing diabetes during Navratris with special focus on Durga pujas." Journal of Social Health and Diabetes 03, no. 02 (2015): 084–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2321-0656.152804.

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AbstractFasting during festivals is a common practice across all religions, believed to be associated with spiritual well-being. No literature is available addressing the challenges associated with blood glucose control in patients with diabetes during the festivals of Navratri and Durga puja, which are associated with both culinary extravagances and ritualistic fasting. Fasting alternating with binge eating can result in severe metabolic alterations, increasing both morbidity and mortality in diabetes. Dietary restraint is central to ensuring adequate glycemic control during Navratris and Dur

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Bhattarai, Achyutananda. "Durga Puja (Dashain) in Nepal: A Fusion of Ritual, Cultural, and Commercial Performance." Journal of Management 7, no. 1 (2024): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.3126/jom.v7i1.73516.

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This research article examines Durga puja (Dashain) in Nepal as a fusion of ritual, cultural, and commercial performances analyzing the impact of ritual and culture on commercial behaviors. Culture is largely concerned with the human values and beliefs that have been connected with the economic and commercial conduct of the people. The study explores how cultural performance shapes consumer behaviors besides strengthening social solidarity and preserving cultural identity. How the celebration of Durga Puja increases the financial activities of the country and what pros and cons it brings to so

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Bhattacharyya, Monolina. "Ambition and Competition among Hindu Bengali Elites in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Calcutta." Journal of Festive Studies 6 (December 16, 2024): 214–38. https://doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2024.6.1.147.

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In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century urban colonial Calcutta, Hindu Bengali gentry celebrated numerous festivals at home, including Rathajatra, Doljatra, Jagaddhatri Puja, and Kali Puja, and even marked the birthdays and weddings of their pets with grandeur. Durga Puja, held in autumn, stood out as the most elaborate and significant. It provided affluent Bengali families with a chance to display opulence by hosting lavish gatherings and inviting prominent Europeans to their newly built mansions. Competition among them was fierce to showcase their wealth and status. For many of these families,

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Mrs., Ipsita Chakraborty Dr. P. Ganesan Dr. Debaprashad Chatterjee. "ECO-FRIENDLY RELIGIOUS WORSHIP AMONG THE BENGALI HINDU COMMUNITY." International Journal of Advance and Applied Research 2, no. 18 (2022): 119–23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7056383.

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<strong><em>Abstract</em></strong> <em>Religious Worship is very common and normal activities among the all religions daily or occasionally.  It may be seem that without any everyday ritualistic practice one can failure in his target. Bengali Hindu Community maintaining some environmental ethics during their worships, and friendly behavior with nature as a part of Hindu culture. Some ritualistic practices in collaboration with eco-friendly activities are carried out by us in our daily and occasional worship. Bengali Hindus carries out several eco-friendly worships and rituals throughout t

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Majumdar, Tanupriya. "SUSTAINING INFLUENCE: THE GIRMITIYA LEGACY AND INDIA’S SOFT POWER IN WEST BENGAL AND BEYOND." Social Science Review A Multidisciplinary Journal 3, no. 3 (2025): 221–26. https://doi.org/10.70096/tssr.250303037.

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This study examines how Girmitiya communities, descendants of Indian indentured labourers, contribute to India’s soft power and cultural diplomacy, with a specific focus on West Bengal. After the abolition of slavery in 1834, more than half a million Indians were transported to various British colonies as indentured labourers. Despite exploitation and harsh conditions, these communities have preserved their cultural identity, adapting to new environments. The research demonstrates how Girmitiya maintain and promote Indian cultural practices through traditional festivals, cuisine, and arts, est

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Saha, Biswajit, and Tanbir Nasim. "Isolation and characterization of textile dye degrading Microbes from Ganga (Ganges) water." Ecology, Environment and Conservation 29 (2023): 296–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.53550/eec.2023.v29i02s.048.

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Among the most concerned environmental pollutions that are threatening our biodiversity, water pollution is a major one where effluents from dye-based industries. Textile industries consume a huge volume of azo dyes while up to 50% of dyes find its ultimate way in the water as effluent. In India, after many festivals like Durga Puja, idols are immersed in water. The dyes by which idols are painted affect aquatic livings. The structures of azo dyes consists coupling of diazotized amine with either an amine or a phenol and also contain azo linkage. Most of these dyes are potentially toxic to aqu

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Sagar, Shweta. "From Cuisine to Ceremony in Mauritius: A Sociological Study of Cultural Preservation in the Bhojpuri Diaspora." International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science VIII, no. XI (2024): 3051–62. https://doi.org/10.47772/ijriss.2024.8110237.

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This in-depth study thoroughly investigates the long-term presence of significant elements of cultural identity within the Bhojpuri community residing in Mauritius. The study scrutinises key cultural practices related to food, dancing, music, clothing, religious festivals, and rituals. By conducting a detailed examination of these intricate activities, the research provides unique perspectives on how they foster cultural preservation, social cohesion in the face of variability, and the transmission of cultural knowledge across generations. Significant uncertainties persist regarding further so

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Sagarika, Mukherjee, and Paramanik Manas. "Impact of Durga Idol Immersion on Water Bodies with Early and Late Removal of Idols in Asansol, West Bengal, India." International Journal of Zoological Investigations 08, no. 01 (2022): 152–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.33745/ijzi.2022.v08i01.019.

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Indians celebrate a large number of cultural and religious festivals throughout the year. Idols represents the deity, which is worshiped. At the end the idols are mostly immersed in water bodies. Ancillary like flowers, papers, ashes are also disposed in the water. These activities are often ignored as the source of water pollution, as these activities have aesthetic and cultural value. In this study, impact of Durga idol immersion on the physicochemical properties of the water of two ponds in Asansol (West Bengal, India) was assessed. One of the two pond is well managed, where the local autho

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Aggarwal, Sumit, Nupur Mahajan, Simran Kohli, et al. "Assessment of Community Behavior and COVID-19 Transmission during Festivities in India: A Qualitative Synthesis through a Media Scanning Technique." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 16 (2022): 10157. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610157.

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In India during the first wave of COVID-19 infection, the authorities were concerned about the advent of the festive season, which could lead to a surge in cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection. The present study attempted to assess the socio-behavioral aspects of COVID-appropriate behavior (CAB) at individual and community levels, and their impact on the transmission of COVID-19 during festivities in India. Media scanning was conducted to qualitatively assess CAB by analyzing 284 news reports from across India; quantitative data on COVID-19 daily cases from March 2020 to December 2020 were used to de

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Zaman, Sufia, Ricardo Gobato, Prosenjit Pramanick, et al. "Water quality of the River Ganga in and around the city of Kolkata during and after Goddess Durga immersion." December 17, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3866209.

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India, preferably the state of West Bengal is known for a number of religious festivals of which Durga Puja is perhaps the biggest. The tenth day of the Durga Puja, also known as Dashami is the day when Visarjan (immersion in water) of the idols occur with grand celebrations and processions. The idols are immersed from different ghats of the river. Along with the idols, puja articles such as flowers, food offerings, metal polish, plastic sheets, cosmetic items, polythene bags are also thrown into the water. The River Ganga, a sacred river originating from Gangotri in the Himalayas is the life-

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"The Traditional Songs of the Assamese: Voice and Connection." International Journal of Social Science and Human Research 5, no. 9 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v5-i9-35.

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The Traditional Songs of the Assamese: Voice and Connection The folk songs of Assam are mainly associated with rites and rituals; these folk songs reflect the livelihood of the Assamese community. The songs are related to Shitala Puja, Koli burhi nritya, Gopini naam, biya naam and Bihu geet, which have a unique position in traditional singing among the Assamese community. Sitala is a folk goddess and it is believed that she has is an intimidating presence who distributes infected pulses in village markets, or sends hordes of disease-demons, thus causing outbreaks of smallpox and other contagio

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Deblina, Banerjee. "CONDITION OF THE WORKERS OF THE IDOL MAKING INDUSTRY: A CASE STUDY OF KOLKATA WORD NO.9." December 15, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1155128.

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Kumartuli, a neighborhood in Kolkata, India holds an Kumartuli, a neighborhood in Kolkata, India holds an important place in history which has a long tradition of clay idol-making along with a strong association with the cardinal festival of Bengal ? Durga Puja. Kumartuli is in North Kolkata alongside the river of Hooghly. With the rapid expansion of the city Kolkata, this area has undergone a huge transformation ? mainly due to urbanization. The study followed both deductive and inductive methods using historical and empirical approaches. As a part of empirical approaches field survey, interv

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Kapoor, Vikram, Russell Belk, and Christina Goulding. "Ritual Revision During a Crisis: The Case of Indian Religious Rituals During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, April 7, 2022, 074391562210814. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07439156221081485.

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Rituals, particularly religious rituals, may play a significant role in times of crises. Often, these rituals undergo revision to adapt to the changing needs of the time. This article investigates recent unofficially revised Hindu religious rituals as performed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The multifarious creative interplay between Hindu tradition and change is illustrated through four cases: the religious festival of Durga Puja, the devotional songs or bhajans, the ritual of lighting lamps or diyas, and the fire rituals or havans. The authors offer a systematic discourse analysis of online

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Mukherjee, Utsa. "Live-streaming the goddess in the times of COVID-19: a digital ethnography of diasporic Durga Puja festivals in pandemic Britain." Religion, March 30, 2022, 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2022.2051802.

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Verma, Rabindra Kumar. "Book Review." East European Journal of Psycholinguistics 7, no. 1 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.29038/eejpl.2020.7.1.kum.

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Susheel Kumar Sharma’s Unwinding Self: A Collection of Poems. Cuttack: Vishvanatha Kaviraj Institute, 2020, ISBN: 978-81-943450-3-9, Paperback, pp. viii + 152. Like his earlier collection, The Door is Half Open, Susheel Kumar Sharma’s Unwinding Self: A Collection of Poems has three sections consisting of forty-two poems of varied length and style, a detailed Glossary mainly on the proper nouns from Indian culture and tradition and seven Afterwords from the pens of the trained readers from different countries of four continents. The structure of the book is circular. The first poem “Snaps

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