In Sandesh, I waited with eager anticipation, for Leela Majumdar’s stories. The first things that I sought in these festive issues were the adventure stories. This was before Anandamela, the popular children’s magazine entered into my life. The Pujas meant the publication of a host of festival issues from a host of publishing houses. Their annual Festival Number was an edition which I always awaited eagerly. He had made me subscribe to the magazine, which used to arrive regularly, neatly folded in our letterbox. An avowed bachelor throughout his life, he had been closely associated with the Bengali magazine, Sandesh, incepted by Upendrakishore Roychowdhury. Sisir Kumar Majumdar, was called by the name of ‘Jethu’ by one and all, irrespective of age. When I was a young girl, a gentleman resided in a building, opposite our residence. Needless to say here, inputs from Satyajit Ray himself were voraciously read by his ardent followers which included me. The Pujas are just round the corner and the microphones are blaring rules about social distancing? All of us are preparing ourselves to adjust to the new normal ways of living. Normally people welcome the Goddess with Agomoni songs. The fact that white ‘ kaash’ flowers (which are really grass stalks) epitomise the advent of autumn in Bengal, was brought before the world in the Satyajit Ray-made classic film.
For me the ideal Durga, is the one found in Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhay’s Pather Panchali.
As we deify the feminine power to conquer all evil, we also venerate all the women who played a great role in our lives.
Far from these, it is a sentiment and a bonding. Tab will move on to the next part of the site rather than go through menu items.The greatest festival of the year for us, the Bengalis, has come knocking at our doors. Enter and space open menus and escape closes them as well. Up and Down arrows will open main tier menus and toggle through sub tier links. Left and right arrows move through main tier links and expand / close menus in sub tiers. The following navigation utilizes arrow, enter, escape, and space bar key commands.
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