Summary:
This year, visitors of the 84-year-old Durga puja organised by the Bengal Club will get a palatial feel owing to its Sherawali Ka Darbar theme. Formed in 1922, the 97-year-old Bengal Club has been organising Durga Puja since 1935. This year the Puja will be inaugurated on October 3 evening, by children of Balak Vihar School, a municipal school. Bengal Club has since this year taken responsibility of providing free lunch to all the students of the school every Saturday, in collaboration with ISCKON. Joy Chakraborty, spokesperson of Bengal Club, said, “In addition to celebrating Bengal’s culture and tradition, this year we will also showcase our club’s core value of striving to create unity through sustained community services.” The initiative of Bengal Club focuses on the welfare of the girl child and women’s empowerment..