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Durga Puja
Celebrations
2017 Durga Puja in Australia
Colourful pandals ornamented with flowers and elaborately
engraved deities, women dressed in stunning Tangail, Dhakai,
Kantha, and Baluchari saris as well as men in conventional Kurta
and Dhoti fashioned an atmosphere of Durga Puja.
During the 1970s, there were only around 200 Bengali families in
Sydney, but today there are around 7 pujas in Sydney only, which
suggests increasing number of Bengali people. Generally, people
are very enthusiastic to take part and contribute the skills and
talents they have got for making this a grand event for friends
and family.
Last year, Das who is a gifted sculptor and musician, had
painted and carved the deities commencing balsa wood. Kids were
cheered to enter in a painting and drawing competition whereas
the spectators were pleasured with modern fusion music and
conventional Rabindra Sangeet.
Durga Puja has been an enormous way to connecting with new
people in the community. It becomes a transition now of settling
in new country very easily. In the last 2-3 years, there has
been an increase in young couples, particularly in skillful
migrants, and students also come for festivities and prayers.
At the same time as the community grows up in multicultural
Australia, there have been a lot of mixed marriages. Last year,
in Melbourne, one thousand Bengalis across the whole state and
in so far as Canberra, get together at football club in southern
town of Keysborough to rejoice the Durga Puja.
The deities, prepared from Pith (Shola) as well as coconut
fiber, were got from Kolkata 2-3 years ago. The puja at this
point is very conventional, holding to old rituals. Everybody
gets mixed up in enormous community strength, youngsters cut
fruits for ‘Prasad’ and women arrange the sweets. Though, with
rising numbers, it’s required hiring caterers for the last
couple of years for preparing the conventional lunch. All the
way through this cheerful week, people are coming together at
puja pandals after working.
Durga Puja
Pandals in Australia
Uttaran Western Sydney
Official Website: www.uttaransydney.org
Bangladesh Puja and Cultural Society of South Australia (BPCSSA)
Adelaide Wanniassa, ACT
Official Website: www.priyo@priyoaustralia.com.au
Bengali Association of New South Wales (BANSW)
Sydney
Official Website: www.bansw.org.au
UTSHAB
Croydon, Sydney, NSW
Official Website: www.sydneyutshab.org
Durga Puja in Australia Pandal Durga Puja Address Durga Puja
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