Puja Preparation, Preparing for Durga Puja, Preparation for the Festival

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Puja Preparation

Festivity aplomb! If you step into Gariahat mall you'll be caught among the frenzied Puja shoppers who are practically buying everything-replenishing their wardrobe and giving a new look to their homes as well; gifts and accessories galore they make a spectacle of happy housewives relinquished to have drained every penny from their husband's pockets.

Shopkeepers have advertised their best products,appeasing customers with snacks, drinks and discounts all with a smile that never cease to ease. Hawkers also have a heyday selling wares with much ease than usual to customers with more disposable income. If you plan to walk into the newly built city mart on a weekend be prepared to be short of oxygen until you make a purchase and scoot out.

Restauratuers are busy dishing out their best, finding it rather difficult to accomodate the hungry pre-puja shoppers in throngs. Whatever it is, the cash registers are ringing and pre-puja trend is going to prevail till the year end which goad them to appear 'the benevolent maalik' even with the worst attendant of the restaurant.

Singers and writers compose and write their cherished themes well in advance anticipating approval from fans. Music shops have displayed an array of the CDs and cassets of singers awaiting anxiously for the songs to click while display windows of book shops are teeming with attractive books waiting for the avid readers to lap them up.

Boys and girls are busy preparing for their four day rendezvous, chalking out plans for meets in their favourite hangouts. Puja pandals are gearing up to put up their best show with themes, music, lighting et all. Idol makers are busy bestowing shape to the beautiful Goddess; wooden frame work, straw base and clay silt from the Ganges with the skill of those fingers that set us wondering at the appalling craftmanship and devotion behind such creation.

Homes are resounding of visitors and relatives making pre-puja visits to give away gifts to friends and loved ones. Durga Puja is at the threshold where the azure sky and beaming smiles eagerly await for the Goddess to finally arrive. HAPPY PUJA!!!!!!
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