{"id":11157,"date":"2020-08-01T10:08:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T10:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=11157"},"modified":"2020-08-01T10:08:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T10:08:54","slug":"with-darshan-on-mobiles-ganesh-puja-to-go-virtual-in-kolkata-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=11157","title":{"rendered":"With darshan on mobiles, Ganesh Puja to go virtual in Kolkata | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<section class=\"_2suu5 _24fIT clearfix  undefined undefined \">\n<div class=\"_3v5m2 image_wrapper \">\n<div class=\"_2gIK-\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-77297051,imgsize-665819,width-400,resizemode-4\/77297051.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Artisans giving finishing touches to Ganesh idols in Kumartuli\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><span class=\"_3sXlO _1Ee83 img_cptn\">Artisans giving finishing touches to Ganesh idols in Kumartuli<\/span><\/p>\n<p>KOLKATA: \u201cDarshan\u201d and \u201cAarti\u201d on your laptop or smartphone screens over Facebook live, \u201cPranami\u201d over e-wallets and getting \u201cPrasad\u201d delivered at your doorsteps by app-based agents \u2014 welcome to the digitized Ganesh Puja. The city is likely to witness this due to the pandemic. <br \/>\u201cWe are living at a time where social distancing is the need of the hour and no matter how much we strive, we can never achieve it if we organize a Puja the traditional way. Hence, we have decided to go online this year, where we are not disclosing the place where the puja will take place but devotees across the world can see it live on Facebook from their homes. They can also pay donations online and people residing in Kolkata and <!-- -->Salt Lake<!-- --> can even place request for \u201cPrasad\u201d, which we will send them free of cost,\u201d said Anindya Chatterjee, president of <!-- -->Yubak Sangha Club<!-- --> in Salt Lake. <br \/>Chatterjee added: \u201cWe have stepped on the 11th year and themed it on Grihokone Vinayak, which asks people to stay at home. The Prasad box will also have a mask along with the bhog.\u201d <br \/>\u201cThere will be no pandal this year as we have planned to shift the puja inside our office. We will live stream the puja for club members,\u201d said Pritam Dutta, president of Amra Kajon Club on Prince Anwar Shah Road. <br \/>\u201cWe have opened a page on Facebook and are in the process of adding our members and patrons,\u201d said Arun Bhuwalka, who has been organising Ganesh Puja at Tara Chand Dutta Road since 2005. Ganesh puja organizers at <!-- -->Burrabazar<!-- --> and <!-- -->Posta<!-- -->, too, are going digital. <br \/>\u201cWe will open a YouTube channel where we will be live streaming the puja,\u201d said Sachin Dandapit, a businessman in Burrabazar who has been organising Ganesh Puja since 1980. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/with-darshan-on-mobiles-ganesh-puja-to-go-virtual\/articleshow\/77291619.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artisans giving finishing touches to Ganesh idols in Kumartuli KOLKATA: \u201cDarshan\u201d and \u201cAarti\u201d on your laptop or smartphone screens over Facebook live, \u201cPranami\u201d over e-wallets and getting \u201cPrasad\u201d delivered at your doorsteps by app-based agents \u2014 welcome to the digitized Ganesh Puja. The city is likely to witness this due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1596276536_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}