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With little more than two months to go for Durga puja, festival committees in the city are brainstorming ways to ensure the safety of pandal-hoppers amid the Covid-19 crisis, while offering them a glimpse of the goddess.<\/p>\n
Three Durga puja committees in the city, all crowd- pullers and located within one-km stretch in south Kolkata, have joined hands to introduce a drive-in \u2018darshan\u2019 concept – an arrangement which would allow people to slow down their car to take a look at the pandal and the Durga idol without having to alight from their cars.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs maintaining physical distance is mandatory, we had to think of a concept that would avoid crowding near the pandals. Our patron, Texas-based Mridul Pathak, came up with this drive-in concept during a video conference. Shortly after, we set the ball rolling,\u201d Kapil Dev Pathak, an officer-bearer of Badamtala pujo committee, said.<\/p>\n
Sanitiser will be sprayed on the cars before every puja pandal, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe drive-in route has been mapped in a certain way… Revellers will get to catch a glimpse of the Badamtala puja decoration, before proceeding westwards to 66 Pally, and finally the Nepal Bhattacharya Street Durga Puja at the end of the trail,\u201d Pathak explained.<\/p>\n
The organisers have decided to pay tribute to auteur Satyajit Ray this time, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs this year marks Ray\u2019s birth centenary, we chose Apu trilogy as the theme for the three marquees. Badamtala will portray scenes of \u2018Pather Panchali\u2019, 66 Pally of \u2018Aparajito\u2019 and Nepal Bhattachaya Street Pujo will depict \u2018Apur Sansar\u2019,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n
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