tigerexotique | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 23 2007 | art, news, India, society
Redot Sudha.
First, Calcutta Durga Pujas are AWESOME!
Second, I disagree with Mr. Mukerjee that it is "excess"...this is the only puja that we celebrate in this way. It is a tradition in Bengali culture...if Rockefeller Center can spend a ton of money on a Christmas tree and Holiday decoration and not be deemed extravagant, how dare he call something this deeply rooted in our spirit and culture, an "excess". he's just being a stick-in-the-mud cause he wasn't invited.Quoted: Half Mardi Gras, half Christmas, Durga Pujo, a five-day festival dedicated to the Hindu goddess Durga, is the most important religious event for Hindus in Calcutta
- tigerexotique | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 25 2007 | art, india
FYI: $=39.8 INDR
last month it was $= 42 INDR
Quoted: MUMBAI (Reuters) - Artist Atul Dodiya is feted at galleries in New York and London where his paintings sell for six figure sums. But it's ...
- tigerexotique | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 13 2007 | india, art, news
Quoted: A top Indian magician is set to open a version of Harry Potter's fictional Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, hoping that a master's degree in magic will help keep the ancient art form alive.
saw him perform when i was little
- tigerexotique | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 27 2007 | art, India, Kolkata
Quoted: Picture of Kolkata(Calcutta)-Durga Puja Pandal
Durga Puja, a celebration of the Hindu Goddess Durga, in the city of Calcutta, is also a celebration of the arts. Nowhere else in the world does one find such inspiration and creativity in the fine arts and architecture than here in Calcutta--browse through the pictures of Pandals--temporary decorations housing the various idols of Goddess Durga. In the recent years, artists have started using unique building materials to design these pandals, including this one made of fiber glass!
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