Dear doctors, Please read the following news involving doctors in Kolkata. Durga Puja is the greatest religious and cultural festival among West Bengalis, which falls in September or October each year and extends for four days. This year the puja will continue from 25th September. All offices and business houses remain closed for this mega event.
This puja (worship) is celebrated in large pandals with idols of Goddess Durga and her four children with artistic display of workmanship of idols, mostly made of clay, innovative demonstration of lights through a long stretch of roads nearby the pandal and music. Organizers engage themselves in this grand activity for more than two months to show their best performance in creativity in themes. Each of these pandals is visited by several hundred thousand visitors at night. The organizers of Durga Puja Festival in central Kolkata showed a…