From NRC to farmers’ protests, at least two major Durga Puja committees in West Bengal have selected contentious and controversial issues as their themes this year.
The word pūjā is Sanskrit, and means reverence, honour, homage, adoration and worship. Due to the intellectual depravity of artists and puja committees in Kolkata, West Be
Durga pujas themed on the issues of National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the partition of the country in 1947 featured among the list of "Serar Sera Puraskar" (Best of the best award) announced by the West Bengal government on Monday.
Durga Puja in Kolkata has taken the centre stage of political debate after the party in opposition, BJP, threatened to call for a social boycott alleging that the goddess has been disrespected by the organiser of this puja.The controversy .