Dum Dum Park Bharat Chakra - Club in South Dumdum - 24 Paraganas North, India

It is a place for Durga Puja worship. Durga Puja (ISO: Durga Puja), also known as Durgotsava or Sharodotsav, is an annual Hindu festival originating in the Indian subcontinent which reveres and pays homage to the Hindu goddess Durga, and is also celebrated because of Durga's victory over Mahishasura. It is celebrated all over the world by the Hindu community, but it is particularly popular and traditionally celebrated in the Indian state of West Bengal, and other states like Bihar, Assam, Tripura, Odisha, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh (eastern parts) and some other countries like Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. The festival is observed in the Indian calendar in the month of Ashwin, which corresponds to September-October in the Gregorian calendar. Durga Puja is a ten-day festival, of which the last five are of the most significance. The puja is performed in homes and public, the latter featuring a temporary stage and structural decorations (known as pandals). The festival is also marked by scripture recitations, performance arts, revelry, gift-giving, family visits, feasting, and public processions, Mela. Durga Puja is an important festival in the Shaktism tradition of Hinduism. Durga Puja in Kolkata has been inscribed on the intangible cultural heritage list of UNESCO in December 2021. The Hindu calendar is lunisolar but most festival dates are specified using the lunar portion of the calendar. A lunar day is uniquely identified by three calendar elements: masa (lunar month), paksa (lunar fortnight) and tithi (lunar day). Furthermore, when specifying the masa, one of two traditions are applicable, viz. amanta / purnimanta. Iff a festival falls in the waning phase of the moon, these two traditions identify the same lunar day as falling in two different (but successive) masa. A lunar year is shorter than a solar year by about eleven days. As a result, most Hindu festivals occur on different days in successive years on the Gregorian calendar. As per Hindu scriptures, the festival marks the victory of goddess Durga in her battle against the shape-shifting asura, Mahishasura. Thus, the festival epitomizes the victory of good over evil, though it is also in part a harvest festival celebrating the goddess as the motherly power behind all of life and creation. Durga Puja coincides with Navaratri and Dussehra celebrations observed by other traditions of Hinduism. The primary goddess revered during Durga Puja is Durga, but celebrations also include other major deities of Hinduism such as Lakshmi (the goddess of wealth and prosperity), Saraswati (the goddess of knowledge and music), Ganesha (the god of good beginnings), and Kartikeya (the god of war). In Bengali traditions, these deities are considered to be Durga's children, and Durga Puja is believed to commemorate Durga's visit to her natal home with her beloved children. The festival is preceded by Mahalaya, which is believed to mark the start of Durga's journey to her natal home. Primary celebrations begin on the sixth day (Shasthi), on which the goddess is welcomed with rituals. The festival ends on the tenth day (Vijaya Dashami), when devotees embark on a procession carrying the worshipped clay sculpture-idols to a river, or other water body, and immerse them, symbolic of her return to the divine cosmos and her marital home with Shiva in Kailash. Regional and community variations in celebration of the festival and rituals observed exist. Durga Puja is an old tradition of Hinduism, though its exact origins are unclear. Surviving manuscripts from the 14th--century provide guidelines for Durga Puja, while historical records suggest that royalty and wealthy families were sponsoring major Durga Puja festivities since at least the 16th-century.[self-published source? The prominence of Durga Puja increased during the British Raj in the provinces of Bengal, Odisha and Assam. However, in modern times, the importance of Durga Puja is more as a social and cultural festival than a religious one, wherever it is observed.

They have presented a unique concept Durga Puja theme this year2023. Very balanced ambience all around. Sequrity person worked their job. But they were creating a fake jam in front of pandal. Unnecessarily they creat d que. But after entering there are no restriction. So everyone taken so many times to see the pandal and Devi Durga.

Bharak Chakra is a famous Durga Puja Located in Dum Dum Park area Every Year they came with innovative ideas during celebration of Durga Puja In this year theme Maa Durga theme is Puppet .Here, the mandap is shaped like a king's crown.Past the entrance, there are patachitras on the walls of the pandal depicting the life and the doings of a king. Tepa putuls, mud dolls with limbs and a head, line the patachitras

Consistent pandals each year. I would recommend to visit the pandals before soshti as the crowd gets massive after that

A renowned big club for Durgapuja. Must be in the wishlist while visiting Durgapuja in North Kolkata

The Durga Pujo Pandal was amazing! The creativity has been excellent and they have made use of live artisans performing puppetry!

I visited this pandal in 2022 and as well in 2023. I loved the theme both of the times and had a lot of fun being there. It always gives a happy and joyful feeling to visit the pandal

Popular puja at north kolkata. You can just few mins walk from tarun sangha pandel. You can also take rikshaw from dumdum park bis stop or kestopur vip bus stop.