Behala Friends Durga Puja depicts the ongoing humanitarian crisis at Gaza, alongside the 1943 famine in Bengal as their theme for 2025.
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Among the theme-based Durga Pujas creating ripples among pandal hoppers and art lovers in Kolkata this year is Behala Friends Durga Puja, which highlighted the ongoing humanitarian crisis at Gaza as their theme this year, and juxtaposed it to the widespread starvation and death witnessed in the Bengal famine of 1943.“While we have not seen the Bengal famine ourselves, we have come across horrifying accounts through oral recollections of our elders, and through writings from that era. When I embarked on this project, I realised that the man-made famine which was inflicted by colonial powers in Bengal is now being witnessed by the world in the Gaza genocide”, artist Pradip Das told The Hindu.
Behala Friends Durga Puja depicts the ongoing humanitarian crisis at Gaza, alongside the 1943 famine in Bengal as their theme for 2025.
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