Images of bengali food and festival

Traditional durga puja at Ekdalia evergreen. Devi durga in traditional style with heavy decoration.

Bird nest was the theme of the puja pandal. Surroundings of the pandal decorated with wooden crafts and the pandal was a huge bird nest made by the wood pices.

At Jodhpur park the pandal theme was children’s house building block. Various types of colorful blocks were used to decorate the pandal. The idol was also very much colorful.

Puja theme was the industrialisation. The pandal was made by various machine parts and electronic circuits. Devi durga was also in different style, it was some thing like the rural people. The message was the industrialisation and the rural people.

Puja pandal decorated with the umbrella, candle, and glass paintings. The paintings are in style of kalighat painting and the idol of devi durga also in the kalighat painting style.

Streets, houses and what ever near the puja pandal (puja stage) beautifully color and decorated. Where ever you can see you will find colour, design and motifs. This is one of the famous puja in the kolkata, Colorful houses beside the street

Puja Mandap or the puja pandal decorated with cover pages of Bengali puja festival magazines (Puja barshiki or sarodiya sankha) along with various types of art material. This Puja theme reminds about the great role of literature in Bengali culture.

One of the popular menus at Café restaurant is afgani chicken. Marinated chicken grilled and prepared with spice and cream served with salad. Outer part of the chicken is soft and inside it’s the grilled chicken. The picture is from Café restaurant

Soft marinated chicken coated with whisked egg and bread crumbs, and fried in hot oil. For the best taste serve it with mustard sauce ( kasundi ) and salads. Its tests great for its crispiness in the out side and soft chicken inside it and the mustard sauce with it just makes it more delicious. It’s one of the traditional Bengali dishes, mainly available in the old type of restaurants in Kolkata. The picture is from Café restaurant in the Hazra crossing at Kolkata.