{"id":22243,"date":"2016-10-19T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=22240&preview_id=22240"},"modified":"2016-10-19T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T07:23:00","slug":"missed-kolkatas-durga-pujo-heres-what-17-of-the-best-pandals-looked-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=22243","title":{"rendered":"Missed Kolkata’s Durga Pujo? Here’s what 17 of the best pandals looked like"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Durga Pujo is over. Pandals got build, decked-up, photographed, and now they’re being taken apart. Idols of Goddess Durga have already gone into rivers, ponds, etc. Selfies in ethnic attires and with vermilion-smeared faces are flooding social media no more.<\/p>\n

The only thing that hasn’t seen an end yet is the remorse of Bengalis who couldn’t go home to Bengal this Durga Pujo. Their grimace still linger. Not every Bong may feel this way, but for most, at least the ones who grew up in Bengal, Durga Pujo is a big deal. Our calendars revolve around the plan of spending the six-day long festivities in Bengal.<\/p>\n

When this plan falls through, when Durga Pujo comes sans pandal-hopping, it’s a suppressed catastrophe. The lack of leaves and the expensive tickets are The Grinch, and they stole away our bhog<\/i>-filled, dhuno<\/i>-laced Christmas. There’s no coming back from that.<\/p>\n

So we wait. We wait for next year. We save leave days, we take an oath to book the tickets while they’re still affordable, we count on our faith that nothing will go wrong next year. Till then, we can see the pictures of the gorgeous pandals we missed this year.<\/p>\n

If you are someone who loves <\/b>celebrating Durga Pujo in Kolkata and missed out on it this year, here’s a glimpse at few of the best pandals that adorned the city. <\/b>
\nSINGHI PARK SARBOJANIN DURGA PUJA<\/b><\/p>\n

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Photo: Swarnadeep Mitra<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo: Swarnadeep Mitra<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

SELIMPUR PALLY SARBOJANIN DURGA PUJA<\/b><\/p>\n

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Photo: Abhirup Bhattacharya<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

BALLYGUNGE SAMAJ SEBI SANGHA <\/b><\/p>\n

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Photo: Abhirup Bhattacharya<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

SHIBMANDIR SARBOJANIN DURGOTSAB (MUDIALI)<\/b><\/p>\n

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Photo: Swarnadeep Mitra<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo: Swarnadeep Mitra<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

MUDIALI CLUB SARBOJANIN DURGA PUJA <\/b><\/p>\n

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Photo: Swarnadeep Mitra<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo: Swarnadeep Mitra<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

SIKDAR BAGAN DURGOTSAB<\/b><\/p>\n

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Photo: Ambika Gomes<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

JODHPUR PARK SARBOJONIN<\/b><\/p>\n

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Photo: Abhirup Bhattacharya<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

HINDUSTAN PARK SARBOJANIN DURGOTSAV <\/b><\/p>\n

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Photo: Swarnadeep Mitra<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

HINDUSTAN CLUB DURGA PUJA <\/b><\/p>\n

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Photo: Abhirup Bhattacharya<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Photo: Swarnadeep Mitra<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

HATIBAGAN SARBOJANIN<\/b><\/p>\n

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Photo: Abhirup Bhattacharya<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

EKDALIA EVERGREEN CLUB DURGA PUJA<\/b><\/p>\n

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Photo: Swarnadeep Mitra<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Photo: Swarnadeep Mitra<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

DESHAPRIYA PARK DURGATSAV<\/b><\/p>\n

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Photo: Debarpita Ghosh\/ Priyodorshi Mustafi<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Photo: Debarpita Ghosh\/ Priyodorshi Mustafi<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

COLLEGE SQUARE SARBOJANIN DURGA PUJA<\/b><\/p>\n

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Source: Ambika Gomes<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

CLIVE HOUSE, NAGERBAZAR<\/b><\/p>\n

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Photo: Abhirup Bhattacharya<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

BABUBAGAN, DHAKURIA <\/b><\/p>\n

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Photo: Debarpita Ghosh\/ Priyodorshi Mustafi<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

JODHPUR PARK 95 PALLY DURGA PUJA<\/b><\/p>\n

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Photo: Debarpita Ghosh\/ Priyodorshi Mustafi<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

TRIDHARA SAMMILANI DURGA PUJA<\/b><\/p>\n

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Photo: Debarpita Ghosh\/ Priyodorshi Mustafi<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Durga Pujo is over. Pandals got build, decked-up, photographed, and now they’re being taken apart. Idols of Goddess Durga have already gone into rivers, ponds, etc. Selfies in ethnic attires and with vermilion-smeared faces are flooding social media no more. The only thing that hasn’t seen an end yet is the remorse of Bengalis who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}