God ganesha is worship in every
ritual funtion of Hindus, but ganesh chaturtthi and Sarvjanic Ganesh Puja is
basically organized by south Indian community as well as other local clubs in
Kharagpur. Before 1990 small puja pandals were made only in some locality of town
but from 1990 onwards this puja organized in all locality of malancha,
gatarpara, kumarpara, kharida, Bhagwanpur, New settlement, Jain nagar, Old
Settlement, Golebazar, Jhapatapur, Nimpura etc.
50 foot long idol of Ganesh in Ravan Maidan in Kharagpur at day time
This puja is celebrate from three
days in most of the puja committee but big budgeted and big clubs can
organize this for one week or for ten days.
During this period most of the puja
committees were organized different cultural as well religious program and
different competition organized. Most famous program where, dance competition,
quiz and song competition. Pandals are well decorated and lighting is also one
another attraction of this puja. Only some problem arise for students due to
high volume of loud speaker used by puja committees.
Most interesting theme pandal and
idols made in Bhagwanpur, Bajrang boys club of Gatarpara, New settlement, Old
settlement and Nimpura. Main problem faced by local club is only shortage of
place to make pandals and stage as well as organize differ program due to huge
crowed gathering near stage, which block road. Durgapuja is main festival and
people went in different pandal to watch the decoration but Ganesh puja is
basically locality puja and people in evening spent their time in their
locality puja committee functions. Now in west Bengal other places also this
puja started but still Kharagpur is only place , where this puja celebrate in
big organized way. When I was in school I was also went to watch all function
of this local puja committee. Bajrangboys club and one more in Gatarpara is my
main puja pandal near to my home. But as my parent not allowed to stay out of
house after 9.30 so I have to watch only one hour most of the program because
they start most of interesting program from 8.30 to till mid night. One another
interesting part of this puja was Bhog. In last day bhog distributed in locality,
the taste of bhog really awesome if you ever get chance to go Kharagpur
during this festival than try to enjoy the taste of Bhog.In kharagpur basically
Bhog made from rice, cereals and vegetable. Some pandals where distribute
“khir” and some distribute “sweets”. From a long time I am not watching this
puja, but all the memories of my school time still alive.
A person who belongs from this town know the celebration of
Ganesh Puja .Ganesh Visarjan was equal important and participated by locality
people as like other day function. Basically the youth participate in visarjan.
Mostly visarjan was done in evening and night with decorative lights, sound
system music and dancing with enjoyment. Most of the visarjan where done in
mandir talab pond. After ganesh puja people again start preparation for
Durga puja in town. The only difference is that local club organized ganesh puja,
where not participate in Durgapuja and in same way club participate in Durgapuja,
where not organize Ganeshpuja. Main reason for that was space and budget
requirement is different for both the puja.
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