Kolkata Durga Puja Themed on NRC

Amidst fears that NRC could be implemented in West Bengal, Rajdanga Naba Uday Sangha puja – a community Durga puja committee in Kolkata has chosen "refugees" as its theme this year.

The committee has placed shuttlecocks and badminton rackets randomly in front of the marquee conveying the impression that "refugees are nothing but shuttlecocks lobbed to each other's side by two countries".

Along with an iron fencing, erected at the marquee,symbolises 'the boundary which separates countries geographically but not itspeople'. There is a giant model of a bird to show that people are fettered byboundaries and can become refugees after partition but not other living beingswho are far more liberated than human beings.

The puja committee had started preparations since July andwith 50 people working day and night at the place to recreate the effect withwood and fiberglass.