Kolkata is bent on burnishing its modern image—and banning a potent symbol of India’s colonial past.
The Kamakhya Temple in Assam, a northeastern state in the Indian sub continent is a famous site for Tantrick or the worship of the evil eye in India. This particular temple is s one of the most revered Shakti temples in India. Regarded as one of the Shakti Peethams, the temple is associated with the legend of Shiva (Indian God) and Daksha Yagna (Mythologycal Indian figure representing Death incarnate). The temple is located in the Nilachal hills, about 8 km west to the city of Guwahati, capital of Assam in India.
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alcutta, India is a city known for having a serious poverty problem. While this is true, there is much more to the place.
Calcutta
Calcutta is a colonial city organized during the period of British rule, which means a great majority of it is only one to two hundred years old. Unfortunately, the upkeep in the city has been seriously lacking. Frankly, the place appears to be falling down in most places.
Digha-Brighton of the East
Mahalaya is an auspicious occasion observed seven days before the Durga Puja, and heralds the advent of Durga, the goddess of supreme power. It is an invocation and invitation to the mother goddess to rise, awake and descend on earth and annihilate the evils of the world by her Supreme Goodness - Jago Tumi Jago, Jago Durga...This is done through the chanting of mantras and shlokas and singing devotional songs. The day of Mahalaya ushers in the aura of Durga Puja.
The mid eighties were the time when Bengal cricket was eagerly tracking around to find out its representative for the national arena, mostly controlled then by the Bombay lobby. Though Kolkata was famous for its football passion, cricket was not much behind - the city possessed Eden Gardens, a magnificent cricket ground which was also the oldest and biggest in the country, numerous clubs were trying to raise aspirant Bradmans, Trumpers or Larwoods in the vast stretch of the lush green maidan area. Local 'para' clubs regularly organized tennis ball cricket tournaments.
West Bengal, the land to travel to, a haven of cultural delights, a civilization to tour through is no doubt can be also called a travel destination. Tourists come to West Bengal for its wealth of sights, cultural exuberance, diversity of terrain and in search of that special something, an extra punch that only a place like West Bengal promises and delivers. West Bengal is where people live with variety, thrive on diversity and are too familiar with largeness to let it boggle them.
Michael Madhusudan Dutta (1824-1873), the 19th century Bengali poet and playwright, was born on 25 January 1824 in a landed family in the village of Sagardari in Jessore district, Bengal (now in Bangladesh). He was the only son of a well-to-do Kayastha Family. His father, Rajnarayan Dutta, was a law practitioner in Kolkata. Madhusudan in his early years, was taught at home by his mother, Jahnabi Devi, and later he joined Sagardari Primary School. At the age of 7 he went to Khidirpur School, Kolkata. In 1843 he got admitted to Kolkata’s famous Hindu College.
Durga Puja is a festival that stirs up the hearts and emotions of the people of Eastern India, especially Bengalis. Goddess Durga is the most powerful of all goddesses and is said to have many "avatars". Some of her well-known forms have been as Kalika, Shakamvari, and Uma who married Lord Shiva. Durga is also the epitome of perfection, the perfect woman who was intelligent, a wonderful mother, a dutiful wife as well as a courageous warrior. Durga Puja is associated with her avatar as Uma, who grew up in Bengal, married Lord Shiva and went to live with him in the Kailash mountains.
Kolkata, the city of joy, the city where the rich and the poor, the educated and the illiterate, live in amicable harmony. This is home to millions complete with dust, dirt and decay, bad roads, chaotic traffic, and basic infrastructural facilities in a deplorable state. Nonetheless, this is the home that exudes warmth, a warmth unknown elsewhere. Here ideals and principles take centrestage, where a just cause will have the masses up in arms, where women are respected more and hence are safer than in any other metro.
