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Month: November 2016

Experiencing Durga Pooja for the first time

Experiencing Durga Pooja for the first time

Everyone must have dreamt of visiting Kolkata during Durga Pooja for all the charm it brings. Being an annual hindu festival, it is mostly celebrated in eastern states of India. Especially this is the largest festival of Bengali Hindus. As told by our friend, the celebration actually goes on for 5 days and those five days were declared as official holidays in West Bengal. First day -Shashthi Shashti marks the procession of bringing in the deity(Aagaman). It takes place on the…

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Kaas Valley of flowers

Kaas Valley of flowers

Maharastra’s Valley of flowers When Valley of flowers in Uttarkhand seems a distant dream, the valley of flowers in Kaas appears much easier dream to achieve. Having come back just after Pooja celebrations in Jamshedpur and Kolkatta, I had no further travel plans for the month. That was until a friend called and informed me about his official visit to Pune and he has a sunday in between, which he could use for sight-seeing. On hearing this, the pictures of Kaas…

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