The Hajra Kali Seva Samiti organises the Charak Mela every year. It peaks on 2nd Boisakh - 16th April this year - and I saw the beginning of a large gathering even yesterday. Women and men were seen taking water from a nearby pond in earthen vessels on bamboo poles to the temple. There was a rural mela with all its full flavour - wooden furniture, artificial ornaments, vertical wheel, phuchkas etc - and I was told by the organisers that goats would be sacrificed in the evening and this would draw huge crowds as well.
I think the authenticity of this mela should be preserved with careful improvements at the margins.
Here is a photo collage:
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| The pond (left inset) shows the contrast of New Town and the Mela |
It's nice to witness such a Mela as per old Bengali tradition. Kind submission:-
ReplyDelete1. Mela area may be improved next year by light concrete flooring to avoid generation of dust.
2. Pond may be kept clean to the extent possible.
3. A strip of the Pond periphery may have cement lining to avoid landslide of weak zones.
4. Temporary lighting arrangement may be made.
5. Safety/security of women/children needed.
6. The entire Mela premises should be cleaned after it is over on environmental ground.
Only a few years back, when construction of the East West Road Corridor started, there was only one pucca structure in this stretch and that was Hazra Kalibari. There was no electricity, nothing. People from distant villages turned up there on the occasion of Charak Mela. Now, one have to try hard to discover it within a jungle of tall buildings.
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