Shishu dibas - Children Day celebrating by Srikhanda Janashastha Samity

"Children Day", as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world, in particular to honor children. 

India's Children's Day is celebrated on November 14th the birthday of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Most schools hold cultural performances on this day, run by the children themselves, and teachers also get involved to make it a day to enjoy and remember. Nehru emphasized the importance of giving love and affection to children, who he saw as the bright future of India, and this ideal is celebrated on this day. In Bengali culture it is used to call Shishu dibas. Srikhanda Janashastha samity organized a children's rally in Srikhanda village. There were about 150 children in this rally. This rally start on 3pm in evening with slogan "chacha nehru amar rahe", "shishu dibas jindabad", etc.I post here some picture of this rally

Shishu dibas rally by srikhanda janashastha samity

Shishu dibas rally by srikhanda janashastha samity1

Shishu dibas celebrating srikhanda janashastha samity.

Childrens rally by srikhanda janashastha samity

Children at shishu dibas rally

Shishu dibas celebrating by srikhanda janashastha samity

Shishu dibas celebrating at srikhanda janashastha samity

publicity vehicle at shishu dibas rally organized by srikhanda janashastha samity

At the last of this rally you can see a publicity vehicle. The members of this samity, Anupam Thakur and Bikas Das Baul sing some song about shishu dibas in this vehicle. Samity gives every children a balloon, a cap, biscuits, chocolates.

Madhumati 1418 patrika published on this blog

Like every year also these year, Srikhanda madhumati samity Published a magazine name “MADHUMATI”.

This book contain various pictures, fixtures of Baradanga fair, the history beside this baradanga fair, various bhaki poem.

This book also contain a inviting letter to all of  you for joining in this baradanga festival which will be occurred from 20^th November to 23^rd of November.

All content of this book are written in Bengali and in PDF version. Use Adobe PDF reader to read it. Now the direct link available here. Please download THE  “jd¤ja£ 1418(Madhumati 1418)” book from the following link

      >> DOWNLOAD IT HERE <<

         CAUTION: MADHUMATI SAMITY IS THE OWNER 
                           OF THIS BOOK. 

     SO DON’T USE IT FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSE.

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Katwa Khepa Kali , Jhupo Kali , Nalahati Boro Thakrun Puja

Though this blog about Srikhanda but I like to introuce the three famous kali puja from katwa and Nalahati. Nalahati is under Sudpur Gram Panchayat in katwa 1 panchayat samity.I Post some pictures of the famous khepa kali of Katwa. The festival of Kali Puja is not an ancient one. Kali Puja was practically unknown before the 18th century but I don’t know the history of this puja .But for all of our prayer of katwa I post some picture of this famous kali. Not only the the people of katwa but the Khepa Kali Puja is also widely known and attended by people from nearby villages. Special police forces were there to control the line of people in the Khepa Kali temple.

katwa khepa kali puja

khepa kali puja katwa

These are the Pictures of The Jhupo kali from Katwa college para beside the katwa college.There are no pratima structure. There are two tree Neem and Mango as you see in Picture. The Prayers used to do puja this two tree as jhupo kali.

katwa jhupo kali puja

jhupo kali puja katwa

The following picture is of Nalahati Boro Kali.Nalahati is a small village in the Sudpur Gram panchayat in Katwa-1 block. The famous Kali known as "BORO THAKRUN". There are a myth that a couple of century ago this puja was start by Ruddradas Bagish of Nabadwip.

Nalahati kali boro thakrun puja

নবদ্বীপের বাসিন্দা রুদ্রদাস বাগীশ কয়েকশো বছর আগে নলাহাটি গ্রামে তন্ত্রসাধনায় বসেন। তখনই তিনি দেবীর পুজো শুরু করেন। সেই পুজোই এখনও চলে আসছে। দেবীর মন্দির তৈরি করে দিয়েছিলেন সম্রাট আকবরের সেনাপতি মানসিংহ। পরবর্তী কালে ব্যান্ডেল-কাটোয়া রেললাইন তৈরির সময়ে ইস্ট ইন্ডিয়া কোম্পানি মন্দিরের গায়ে ভক্তদের বসার জন্য বারান্দা তৈরি করে দিয়েছিলেন।
এখানে দেবী বড় ঠাকরুন নামে পরিচিত। ঘট ছাড়াই দেবীর পুজো হয়। ঘট থাকে না বলে দেবীকে আবাহন করারও কোনও পদ্ধতি নেই।

অন্য জায়গার সঙ্গে এখানে পুজোর নিয়মনীতি কিছুটা আলাদা। পুজোর পরে ভোগ, বলিদান, হোম, সব শেষে আরতি হয়। দেবীর পায়ে অঞ্জলি দেওয়ার কোনও ব্যবস্থা নেই। গ্রামের বাসিন্দারা জানান, দেবীকে কাঁধে চাপিয়ে বা গাড়িতে করে বিসর্জন দিতে নিয়ে যাওয়া হয় না। প্রতিমা বাঁশে বেঁধে মাটির রাস্তা দিয়ে টানতে টানতে পুকুর পর্যন্ত নিয়ে যাওয়া হয়। সেখানে এক প্রস্থ পুজোর পরে বিসর্জন দেওয়া হয়।