Love in a time of Durga Puja

Kolkata: Valentine’s Day a universe over might be on a 14th of Feb. But in Kolkata, it extends over a 5 days of a Durga Pujas now on, with immature couples creation a many of extended curfew hours and outrageous crowds that inhibit meddling eyes.   

It could be a throb of a drums or a honeyed smell of incense. Whatever it is, underneath a gawk of a Goddess, there is intrigue is in a atmosphere and a puja pandals are happy sport drift for love.

“Durga puja is a Valentine’s Day for Bengalis,” says 27-year-old Deepak visiting a Deshapriya Park puja pandal with his girlfriend. “That’s since a atmosphere and sourroundings is totally romantic,” he adds.

Recently married Sourav and Shreya, too, agreed. “You don’t need a sold date or time for romance, though for Bengalis Durga Pujas are a days for romance. In a college days, bird examination was a vital event. After matrimony it is all one-directional though for immature ladies and men, it’s a time for romance.”

At roughly each pandal we are certain to strike into doe-eyed couples possibly descending in adore during initial steer or rekindling romance. But there is one pandal in south Kolkata, during Maddox Square, that has warranted a name for itself as a cradle of puja romance.

“Romance is in a atmosphere here,” gushes 24-year-old Sagarika. “You have to only strech out and locate it. we held cave here during Maddox Square dual years ago.” This year, sadly, her lover couldn’t be in city in   a Pujas though Sagarika motionless to revisit Maddox Square with her friends any way. “I skip him”, she says.

There is no age bar on intrigue in a times of Durga Puja, says 45-year-old Madhumita Sen who has been married for 24 years.  Every year when she goes hopping from one Durga pandal to a other during a pujas with her husband, their intrigue simply rekindles.

Arindam Das and Sutapa met during a Deshapriya Park puja pandal dual years ago. They are going to get married subsequent February.

“I met her here in 2010 during same place. It was Ashtami. She was wearing a poetic sari. From afterwards it has been a good knowledge and I’m propitious to have a life partner like her and subsequent year we are removing married,” says Arindam.

So Saint Valentine clearly has competition. What’s more, instead of only one day, Goddess Durga has full 5 full days to wobble her sorcery spell.

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