Mumbai's Durga Pujas

If you are a Bengali and new in Mumbai and destined to stay here during the upcoming Durga Puja don’t feel home sick. Mumbai is next to Kolkata in terms of number of Durga Pujas. You can hop at least 200 pandals within those four days. You will get here everything from egg roll to chandannagarer lighting, dhunuchi naach to dhaker kathi and khichudi with labra to saradiya sankhya during those four days. Most Pandals organise cultural programmes where artists from Kolkata are flown in. Numerous stalls adjacent to the Pandals sell everything from sankha pola to dhakai jamdani, and gourmet things like bori, radhuni and khejur gur. The food stalls overflow with Bengali foods like aloo chop, beguni, ghughni and moghlai parota. Therefore relax and treat yourself to Bengali food, music and the quintessential adda. Here is a pictorial round-up of Mumbai’s Durga Puja.

Chandannagar Lighting at Vashi

Puja Pandal at Koparkhairane




Pandal Decoration at Chembur

Dhaki at the Lokhandwala or Abhijeet's Puja

Queue for Bhog at Mukherjee Barir Pujo

Aatpoure Durga Protima at Thakur Village Kandivali

The Bengal Club at Shivaji Park is the oldest Pujo of Mumbai

Lokhanwala Sarbojanin had LED lighting