Puja Parikroma 2012 : North Kolkata 2.0

Kankurgachi Mitali Sangha Sarbojanin Durgotsav:

The theme of Kankurgachi Mitali is ‘Satya Janani’ and it shows a pictorial depiction of four stages- Conceiving the child, Delivering the child, Upbringing, and Admonishing and reprimanding the child for his wrong doings just like Ma Durga who showered her love, affection and concern for little Ganesha but on the other side with all the wrath and anger, She killed the demon Mahishasur. The Pandal Structure is built by plaster of paris, bamboo, fiber stone, silver stone and many others. The four stages are elucidated by fiber models.

Ultodanga Sangrami Sarbojanin Durgotsav:

Dum Dum Park Tarun Sangha Sarbojanin Durgotsav:

With the 32 feet high mandap, 1100 buckets and drums full of colors, Dum Dum Park Tarun Sangha depicts “Rong-Utsav-Durga-Srishti-Milan” (Color-Festival-Durga-Creation-Union). The flowing colors have been made with straw, paper and lead-free colors. No plastic has been used. Durga is made in the form of traditional stone idol from ancient temples.

Dum Dum Park Bharat Chakra Sarbojanin Durgotsav:

The 12 year old puja comes up with theme “Alor Sandhaney” (In search of Light). The mandap made up of around 10K human figures (made of stems, leaves and thermocol and wrapped with aluminum foil) which depict a blazing sun, the ultimate source of light. "Light is the epitome of energy just as Durga is the epitome of power," said Prabir Mukhopadhyay, the president of Dum Dum Park Bharat Chakra Puja Committee.

Dum Dum Park Yubak Brinda Sarbojanin Durgotsav:

A giant honeycomb made with ready-to-fry savories is the centerpiece. The path leading to the mandap is lined on both sides with sunflowers made of paper. The story of Krishna's life is depicted on the walls in Kirigami (aka Aurigyami), a Japanese paper art which involves cutting of the paper and use of adhesives.

Dum Dum Park Tarun Dal Sarbojanin Durgotsav:

Nature and woman - unification of both are depicting Dum Dum Park Tarun Dal in their puja mandap of this 35 year's Durga Puja. And the ingredient of this theme is colourful wools. The female artisans of Laxmikantapur implemented the theme with about 500 kgs wool. The artwork started since last February. The sky, soil and water - three stages of their mandap. At first, one has to go through the sky, have to cross soil and lastly the water. When you're going across sky, then you can see flying birds and ducks, the autumn clouds etc., when you come on soil, you can see singing bauls, riders on elephants trees, deer etc. and when you comes on water, you'll see bloomed lotuses , fishes, egrets, Mermaids.

Kalindi Vivekananda Park Sarbojanin Durgotsav:

Pragati Pally Adhibasibrinda Sarbojanin Durgotsav:

Laketown Netaji Sporting Club Sarbojanin Durgotsav:

The obsolete Ser-Pai shilpo is the theme of this year's Lake Town Netaji Sporting Durgotsab. In ancient days, people used to weigh something by a unique container called Ser and Pai. The smiths of Suri, in the district of Birbhum are still making this container, but not for use, but for the decoration of rich family's show-case. Kilograms, grams now replaced Ser and Pai. The idol of goddess Durga is made with a traditional form, in a compact manner as seen in this picture.

Laketown Netaji Sporting Club Sarbojanin Durgotsav:

The obsolete Ser-Pai shilpo is the theme of this year's Lake Town Netaji Sporting Durgotsab. In ancient days, people used to weigh something by a unique container called Ser and Pai. The smiths of Suri, in the district of Birbhum are still making this container, but not for use, but for the decoration of rich family's show-case. Kilograms, grams now replaced Ser and Pai. The idol of goddess Durga is made with a traditional form, in a compact manner as seen in this picture.

Laketown Adhibasi Brinda Sarbojanin Durgotsav:

Sarbojanin Durgotsab 2012 recreates an old village with jute, straw and bamboo. On this golden jubilee year, they intended to get back the golden times of nostalgic days, when palki, bullock carts, ploughing by bullocks, net to catch fishes were the prevailing features of Kolkata and Bengal.

Sreebhumi Sporting Club Sarbojanin Durgotsav:

They have created a replica of Minakshi Temple in Madurai.

Surir Bagan Sarbojanin Durgotsav:

In it’s the 48th year; Surir Bagan designed their mandap with ‘Taal Pata’ (leaves of Palmyrah tree). The accessories of the beautiful Durga idol are also made of Palmyrah leaves. This is to bring out the artistic works of ‘Taal Pata’ & related artistry.

Murari Pukur Bidhan Sangha Sarbojanin Durgotsav:

Telengabagan Sarbojanin Durgotsav:

In ancient Bengal, engraving of metals to create artistic images was started since the inception of 18th century. Panchanan Karmakar, Ramchand Roy, Bishwambhar Acharya were the pioneer in this field. Krishnapriyo Dasgupta, the theme-maker of Telenga Bagan is following the work of these three pioneers to make the puja pandal. 25-30 tons of metal has been used to create the theme.  The Durga idol is engraved in Copper and rest of the decoration is made of iron.

Karbagan Sarbojanin Durgatsav:

Ultodanga Yuba Brinda Sarbojanin Durgotsav: