Ashtami is the most important day of Pujo. Continuing the age metaphor, a Bengali would tend to look at it as the adulthood of the Pujo-being. It is the day the best- and often the most traditional- outfits are put together, the best localities visited, the hugest plans made. It is also the day believers offer the Anjali to the goddess. Vaise the anjali could be offered any and all of the pujo days, but the Ashtami anjali tends to assemble the most number of devotees.
Ashtami saw us wearing sarees, and looking our traditional best. We met up at Gariahat, and got a cab a tad too soon. Reached New Alipore in under half an hour and visited two of the richest and most acclaimed pandals in the city- Suruchi Sangha and Behala Notun Dal...
Everything was fun, except the returning home which took me 2hrs instead of the usual 45 min, thanks to the unthinkable traffic shit that Pujo-ised Kolkata sees.
Us in Garaiahaat: From left: Deba, Me, Mallika, Roop.
At Ananya's place.
Me and Srooti at Anu's place.
Deba and Roop: They brighten up any footpath.
Idol.
The pandal at Natun Dal.
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