Bengaluru pandals prep up for this year's Durga Puja thehindu.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehindu.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The unique festive spirit of Durga Puja at Oikotan Hebbal Durgotsav will come to life with a wide choice of Bengali delicacies in our food court, the sound of shankh dhwani, and the inimitable dhak beats,” she said. Many other puja committees have set their festive plans in order to bring the essence of Bengal to life in Bengaluru.
The varied trajectories of Bengali cabaret/bar dancers who ferried themselves between the two cities of Mumbai and Kolkata in search of livelihood and shelter since the last decades of the 20th century are mapped. Taking Kolkata as the epicentre of research, the author proposes to trace the eviction drive of the city’s erotic dancers ascribing their large-scale exodus to the