At the Vodafone Agomoni
September 23, 2014: I landed in Jaipur today morning with not more than two hours of sleep. I was at the Vodafone Agomoni 2014 event of Vodafone at Kalamandir, Kolkata. Agomoni has marked a special place in the city’s social calendar. This was the 14th edition of the event.
It
starts at around 8:30 pm and goes on till the first rays of the sun.
I watched the whole performance of Sharmila Tagore with Soumyojit and
Sourendro of You
& I
group. In fact, I was also impressed by the Das brothers dhakis.
The
whole group has the surname Das and was looking very elegant in the
red Vodafone dress. The dhaks,
also covered in red, made it look all the more spectacular.
While
the performance went on on the stage, the artist from Kumartuli drew
the Goddess' statue hour by hour and by the time the event ended he
completed the whole statue which means “Agomoni” or “The
Arrival” of Maa
Durga. Interestingly, as per the mythology, each year Maa
Durga is said to come in a different mode of transport. This time it
is said that she would arrive on a boat and leave in a palanquin.
Thank
you Vodafone for giving Agomoni
to the City
of Joy.
In
Jaipur I have a packed schedule and would be leaving for Bangalore
for the Bangalore
Literature Festival
where I have two sessions: one on September 27 on Kala
Rupankar – interface of Hindi Literature and the Arts
and the other is on September 28 on Going
Places – Travel Writing
for which I am looking forward to.
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bee
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