As Navratri is around the corner, everyone is busy preparing for the celebration. Kolkata is most famous for Durga Puja is busy with the preparations of the same. One can see pandal getting all around with different themes. This year Kolkata city is ready to set new boundaries for the celebration of Durga Puja with a unique theme.
With the theme of the pandal, titled “Ritumati” — a woman during the period of menstruation — the organizers hope that it would create awareness among people, especially men, about menstrual hygiene and help treat it as a normal biological process.
A girl sitting on a sanitary napkin-shaped cloud; a collage of faces of women – mothers, sisters, aunts – interwoven with red threads; a sanitary napkin-shaped tape recorder sandwiched between calendars – the Durga Puja pandal of Pathurighata Pancher Pally in north Kolkata this year is breaking some new boundaries and a few taboos surrounding menstruation.
Ellora Saha secretary, of the Pathurighata Pancher Pally puja committee, said, “Maa Durga symbolizes women empowerment and it is high time that we address the issue of menstruation. We believe that there is