Kolkata, Kali Puja and holidays

Kolkata can be renamed as the city of holidays - the offices of the State government will remain closed from Tuesday till November 16 because of Kali Puja and Bhai Phonta. Therefore, if an employee of the state government takes one casual leave on Monday, it would turn out to be a bonanza of nine-days beginning from Saturday.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 7 November 2015.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has already inaugurated three pujas already - as a result, traffic slowed down on these venues of Theatre Road, Girish Park and Janbazar on SN Banerjee Road.
Incidentally, Janbazar was the second Kali Puja that she inaugurated on Friday. It seems this venue would have cultural programs over the next few evenings with Preity Zinta and Vinod Rathod coming on Sunday.
As informed by the organiser, who also hapens to be the local MLA, the immersion would take place a week later.
He justified this by saying that the local Durga Puja is small in scale, therefore the people look forward to Kali Puja to compensate. The idol would be retained for a week despite the rituals getting over in a night.

(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)


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