INDIA: In footsteps of Dark Goddess

[TomSea]

In footsteps of Dark Goddess
A tour of the top Kali puja pandals in Salt Lake and Rajarhat
By The Telegraph in Calcutta
    Published 25.10.19, 4:12 AM


The idol of Salt Lake Maitri Sangha, created by Pradip Rudrapal Pictures by Sudeshna Banerjee

Salt Lake Maitri Sangha

Year: 32nd

The look: The pandal is a stark reminder of the receding groundwater table. A giant crow sits atop the gate with a pebble in its beak, in a reminder of how the clever crow filled up the pitcher with water at the bottom with pebbles to quench its thirst in the Aeshop’s Fables. One walks into the pandal surrounded by clay pitchers with mutiple holes in them and faces giant taps forming almost a canopy overhead. Below it are numerous 10 litre plastic containers. The third segment has the same containers with taps and funnels placed on top, indicating storage. The idol is by Pradip Rudrapal.

Fun funda: The inauguration is on Saturday evening by Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar followed by a recital by Sourendra and Soumyajit. On October 31, Sonu Nigam and Sukhwinder Singh will take the stage at 7pm. Each artiste will sing for an hour and half.


The Pragati Sangha pandal façade on Sourav Ganguly Avenue in Narayanpur, Rajarhat (Sudeshna Banerjee)

Read more at: https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/west-bengal/in-footsteps-of-dark-goddess/cid/1714040

Fascinating country, this may not be easy to understand but the pictures are probably entertaining to see what is over there.  I'd say this article is about inaugurating, opening this place up.



     

[PeteS in CA]

This seems to have been in a suburb NE of Kolkata (Calcutta), in eastern India not far from Bangladesh.

If one were to describe the gap between rich and poor in the US as "extreme", the corresponding gap in India would have to be described as "insane".