Durga Puja 2022 Pandals to Visit: From Vatican City to Library, Unique Durga Puja Pandals To Know About This Year
New Delhi, October 2: Uniqueness is the quality of being particularly remarkable, special and unusual or simply being the only one of its kind. So, with the Durga Puja festivities in full swing all around, it’s time for hundreds of unique thematic and aesthetic pandals, which attract huge crowds. After the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2022, people have been eagerly waiting to welcome Maa Durga and this puja season, pandal committees are ready to provide some unique experiences to the devotees. Hence, from library-themed pandals to one depicting the Vatican city, here are┬аfive unique pandals that will leave you awestruck.┬аDurga Puja 2022 Images & HD Wallpapers for Free Download Online: Wish Happy Durga Puja With WhatsApp Messages, Facebook Quotes, SMS and Greetings.
1. Pandal Depicting Kolkata’s Journey
This year, the theme of an innovative pandal set up by North Kolkata’s Dumdum Tarun Dal, Puja Committee, which turns 45 this year, is ‘City of Joy, Calcutta.’ It attempts to reflect the city’s transformation from Old Calcutta to today’s Kolkata.┬аDurga Puja 2022: Pandal Based on Themes of India-Bangladesh Border and Migrants Issue Turns Up in Dibrugarh.
2. Library Theme to Encourage Reading
In the Chatribari area in Assam’s Guwahati, the Chatribari Sarbajanin Debo Pujasthan Samiti has built its Durga Puja pandal to depict a library. With this theme, the Puja committee intends to encourage people to read more. The pandal with a library motif features great personalities and literature linked to Assam.
3. Depicting Lives of Sex Workers
A pandal in Kolkata that depicts the lives of sex workers under the ‘Parichai’ (identity) shows the society they live in and the way they are seen by people. An idol of Maa Durga made of silicon in the form of a mother has been installed and it attempts to show that even a sex worker has the form of a mother.
4. Vatican City-Themed Pandal
This year, Kolkata’s Shree Bhoomi Sporting Club, which enthrals the audience every year, has set the theme of its Pooja Pandal as Vatican City. They have created its marquee as a replica of the Vatican City’s St Peters Basilica.
5. Pandal Made with Commemorative Coins
Keeping in line with the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations, the Babubagan Sarbojanin Durgotsav Puja pandal in South Kolkata has come with a unique pandal that is made of thousands of commemorative coins issued since independence. The pandal also depicts freedom fighters and great personalities through its ‘Maa Tujhe Salaam’ theme.
Over the years, Durga Puja has become an inseparable part of Indian culture with innumerable people celebrating this festival in their own unique way while pertaining to tradition. Durga Puja holds great significance for the devotees. It is among the most important Bengali festivals. Happy Durga Puja 2022!
