A Way London Celebrate Durga Puja Festival

The start of October denoted a period for groups to praise an essential religious celebration in the Bengali logbook.

Susan Sarkar from India in London expounds on his experience of the five-day Durga Puja festival as a moment era Bengali.

For us, it was dependable Christmas that was the necessary party amid the year and not an Indian or Hindu one. School life developed to Christmas with excellent dinners and songs, there was an extensive enriched Christmas tree at home with masses of presents, and Christmas lunch was likely the primary time in the year when we as a whole sat down to eat together.

As the quantities of Bengalis in the UK expanded, there were more Durga Pujas celebrations held.

Religion didn't have that incredible influence in our folks' lives. My dad had a smaller than average holy place in his room with symbols of different Gods purchased from India, a duplicate of the Bhagavad Gita, and a container of Ganges water – blessed in the Hindu religion.

Supplications were said particularly in the Western way with the palms together. Aside from a few visits to Durga Pujas that was truly our lone presentation to Hinduism. My first outing to a Hindu sanctuary wasn't until the point when I was in my mid-20s on an expanded occasion in India.

We went to a shelter in Tarakeswar, around 40 miles from Calcutta, where my dad had in part raised. The head minister was an old school companion of my dad's and said petitions with us.

I simply recall being shocked at the absence of cleanliness in the sanctuary however that was reclaimed later by most likely the best shingaras - Bengali samosas – I have ever had, in the minister's quarters. By differentiating the Hindu sanctuary, we went to in Delhi a few years prior was spotless and well-kept.

Two or three weeks prior I was inquiring about into London Durga Pujas which is the first Bengali Hindu celebration.

A video from London Sharad Utsav was presented online on demonstrating their festival of the Durga Puja celebration at Ealing Town Hall.

Among Bengalis, Diwali – the Festival of Light – does not highlight conspicuously. A Bengali festival, Kali Puja, for the most part, matches with Diwali. I don't think I knew about Diwali until the point that I was a grown-up.

Maybe this is another case of the "Bengalis are extraordinary" feeling.

I comprehend that most other Hindu gatherings from India commend their celebrations at about an equal time from Diwali.

Having been in Calcutta at Diwali, I discovered Bengalis knew about it yet there appeared to be no dynamic mass festivals. The principal inns did, nonetheless, try incredible endeavors with excellent bloom shows and gliding candles in swimming pools.

Conversing with my cousin in Seattle as of late he described that when he was an occupant in London in the late 1960s, there were various separate pujas and recalled a specific one in Hampstead that he went to.

I found there were no less than ten different Durga Pujas in and around London which I think demonstrates both how critical the celebration is and the quantities of Bengalis in the UK today.