On Durga Puja

I identify Durga Puja with:

• The food stalls
• Kids playing: infact this sight tops the things which bring back the memories of Durga Puja in my childhood
• Women dressing up
• Idol decoration
• Cultural programmes
• Bhog
• The Puja arena minus the crowd
• Dhaak sound
• Smell of pandal
• Family visiting the pandal
• Returning home late in the night after watching the cultural programmes
• The slight depression on and immediately after Dashami

I don't identify Durga Puja with:

• So much vanity, whether of one's dressing or of one's religiousness
• Noise
• Crowd
• Unhygienic food
• Parking woes (recently added)

(Now how much more brief can one be than this?!)