Bagerhat’s Shikder Bari, is known as the mandap that organised one of many splendid Durga Puja celebration in the subcontinent in 2019, would possibly maybe now not be maintaining a huge celebration this time around attributable to the sickness of the first sculptor and deaths in the July uprising.
Visiting Shikder Bari the day prior to this (3 October) afternoon, this correspondent chanced on pin-fall silence there. The gate of the puja mandap was locked.
“Many had died for the period of the present uprising. I would possibly maybe now not get myself organise a huge celebration whereas the nation peaceable mourns the dull. That’s the reason I did now not residing up puja on a tall scale this one year,” acknowledged Liton Shikder, the predominant organiser of this puja, when contacted over the phone.
“On the opposite hand, our family can help a exiguous ceremony marking the tournament,” he added.
Gaurab Shikder, a shut companion of Liton Shikder, acknowledged, “There would possibly maybe now not be an awesome Durga puja celebration at Shikder Bari this one year attributable to the sickness of the first sculptor and the work of rising idols final incomplete.”
He added that Durga Puja celebration at Shikder Bari is a mighty-talked-about discipline that extends effectively beyond the nation’s border.
“Around 15-20 artisans make the idols over a period of six months. But because the first sculptor fell ill and was taken to India for remedy, the work remained incomplete. That’s the reason there would possibly maybe now not be any big puja celebration this one year,” Gaurab acknowledged.
In 2011, Shikder Bari organised Durga Puja for the first time with 251 idols. In 2019, the number elevated to 801.
The different of idols started to lower for the explanation that Covid-19 pandemic.
