Russa Road (S) 1st Lane Kalipuja 2016 Vol.1 | Page 3

Organising Committee ’ s Address

We were truly honoured to receive the responsibility to organise the 69th Kali Puja celebrations at Russa Road South 1st lane from the 28th to the 31st of October .
Our theme for this year was ‘ Sonatoni Srijon ’.
This year we endeavoured to showcase the purity of the Bengal Art Form through the manifestation of our protima , pandal , and prangon . This year we worshipped Kali in her role as the Divine Mother – the eternal force behind all creation . In order to achieve this , we went back to nature – whence we came . Our pandal was in the style of an old village temple – quaintly traditional . We used hessian cloth ( chott ) & other traditional jute products to drape the temple and hand-woven baskets ( jhuri ) along with earthen pots ( bhnar ) were used as adornments . Kali herself was designed by Shri Sanatan Rudra Pal . Even our chandelier was completely designed out of jhuri and bnash .
The puja was inaugurated by Shri Aroop Biswas , Hon . Minister for Sports , Public Works & Youth Services ( West Bengal ). Following the grand inauguration , we also felicitated two of our locality ’ s most eminent residents – Bengal ’ s ex-cricketer Shri Debu Mitra and National Award-winning filmmaker Shri Sanjay Nag .