Celebration of Kalipuja is not all to Prochesta, this philanthropic Organization stretches their hands to the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled and the blind who feel themselves unwanted, uncared in this vast world.
Celebration of festivals in this twin city is not at all rare now. It is seen that almost every club or organization is celebrating Pujas in pomp and grandeur manner depending upon the collection and sponsorship. As the traces of rain disappears and autumn comes the wide azure sky starts beaconing with the drifting patches of fleecy clouds, everybody feels the air of festivity here. The mild fragrance of shiuli makes all enchanted, the chanting of shakti mantras fill up our heart and mind. After Durgapuja another colourful extravaganza is waiting for us – the great Diwali and Kalipuja and all is trying hard to celebrate this Puja in some extra ordinary manner and to bag some rewards from the juris.
But all the organizers are not only active to celebrate the Puja only and to make a hullabaloo for some days. Still in this City there are some Clubs or gosthis whose prime motto is far behind such celebration and the Prochesta Puja Committee at Bidisha More, City Center is undoubtedly the exceptional one atleast for their noble deeds and mission so far their performance for the last six years is concerned.
The 22 young minds of Prochesta, City Center, Durgapur converged from diversified fields with the aim of doing something for the society – in fact for the people who had no one besides them. It is a manifestation towards attaining a deeper love for the society which has helped shared and contributed in being an Engineer, Doctor, CA etc as they are today.
A philanthropic organization – Prochesta has already traversed a long route. Being with the people it has rich experience of sharing and learning. The uncared downtrodden, school left outs, beggars they all live with a dream. They stand by them, helping them in fulfilling their dream. The Almighty has equally shared everything to each being; the distortion has been the results of their ego. The hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone – and they like to stretch their hands to them without any caste and creed.
“We take the opportunity to introduce ourselves as a leading organization of the District. It was sometime during the spring of 2005, a few young minds from City Centre, Durgapur, decided to hurdle together and do something for the society and to celebrate Kali Puja as well, one of the biggest cultural festivals of Eastern India. The seeds of love and unity were sown on that very day leading to the formation of “PROCHESTA PUJA COMMITTEE”.We feel that the worship of the Devine Mother is not only limited with the celebration, but also with different socio cultural activities. ‘Prochesta’ has traversed a long route and stood by the uncared downtrodden and school left outs. Consistently for 6 years we have involved higher administrative officials to participate with us. Our socio activity includes clothes & blanket distribution among the beggars and for those who has no one besides them” – Mr. Debasish Moitra, President of the Organization.
They sponsor the Academic of few needy students even upto college level of studies. They contribute the whole session’s Dress Materials, Books and Copies. Library Books and many such things those are necessary for their studies. They also try to make them sound in Computer Applications so that after completion of their graduation they can at least do something in this era of technology. Besides for the victims of natural calamity, they donate a good amount of money and other things and try to send some paltry amount in the Chief Minister’s Relied Fund every year. Their noble endeavour includes even the findings of ‘better halves’ of the daughters around them who have none to make them coupled in this vast world. They have organized such matrimonial arrangements a lot up till now.
The Kali Puja started by them from the year 2005 in front of Bidisha and PETs Housing Complex. From then onwards the club has celebrating Kalipuja in a grand way. This is their 7th year of such celebration and hope it will be at the peak of their performance. Every year they make some new theme. In the year 2008 their theme was based on mythological episode the story of ‘Samudra Manthan.’ The churning of the Ocean of Milk or the Milky Way was an elaborate process. Mount Mandaranchal was used as the dasher (churning tool), and Vasuki, the king of serpents, became the churning rope. The gods held the tail of the snake, while the demons (Asuras) held its head, and they pulled on it alternately causing the mountain to rotate, which in turn churned the ocean. However, once the mountain was placed on the ocean, it began to sink. Vishnu in his second incarnation, in the form of a turtle Kurma, came to their rescue and supported the mountain on his back. The theme gained much appreciation in this city since it was a completely new theme – the destruction of evil powers in this society as a whole.
Previous year based on a historical background they constructed Sphinx of Giza and the idol was equally on Egyptian style. Skill & creative ideas were used by the students and freelancers of Kala Bhawan, Viswabharati, Santiniketan to make the most exquisite and intricate structure which left the viewers awe-struck.
“This year is our 7th year and similarly a team of young artists namely Sahadev Roy (B.F.A & M.F.A) a teacher of Sikshasetra, Viswabharati and Soumya Samanta (B.F.A & M.F.A) a freelance painter has taken up the job to construct the ruins of Machu Pichhu one of the most beautiful and enigmatic ancient sites in the world. An Inca civilization dating back to 1400’s AD, which has been declared as a World Heritage site by UNESCO. This Civilization whose origins is still unknown however, by year 1500 Tawantinsuya-Inca Empire was the largest and richest in pre-Columbian America. Even though short lived – just shy of one hundred years by the time of their surrender, Incas controlled an estimated population of twelve million people spread over 2500 miles along the western coast of America on the Andean range. Incas didn't have horses of wheels. Inca Civilization left a superb legacy characterized by remarkable Engineering and stone building technique” – says Abhijit Majumdar, Secretary of this organization.
“Every year we arrange for a cultural programme. Srikanta Acharya and Subhomita performed their best last year and this year we are trying to invite Monoj Murali Nyer but everything is depending on fund and the availability of the artist” –as told by Ujjal Sengupta and Sumit Mukherjee of Prochesta.
Kanchan Kumar Chatterjee. (Published in TOI-DAP)
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