North Kol puja theme to turn spotlight on menstrual hygiene | Kolkata News – Times of India

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KOLKATA: Menstrual hygiene will be the theme of a north Kolkata Durga Puja this year. Pathuriaghata Pancher Palli Sarbojanin Durgotsab announced the theme during their banner launch on International Menstrual Hygiene Day on Sunday. This is the 84th year of the puja.
Ellora Saha, councillor of ward 24 and secretary of puja committee, is the key person behind the idea. “This is high time we break the taboos and the first step will be to bring such issues to the fore,” she said.
The banner launch ceremony was called ‘Ebar abagunthon kholo’ (now it’s time to remove the veil). The theme title of the puja is ‘Ritumati’.
Sobhan Mukherjee, who is popular as Kolkata’s ‘padman’ working on menstrual hygiene awareness, said, “It will set a new trend in the history of the city’s Durga Puja.”
“Our puja pandal will be based on installation arts like paintings, models, graphics that will focus on hygienic during menstrual cycles,” said Manash Roy, theme maker of the puja. The idol maker is Sanatan Paul of Kumartuli, who will shape up the idols based on the central theme.
Singer Siddhartha Ray, who is popularly known as Sidhu, will create the theme music for the puja. “Though I am popular as a singer, I had my MBBS degree in Kolkata. It is a very challenging project that relates to health issues and music, both of which are somehow linked with my educational background and my recent profession,” he said.

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