আমার পূজা 2026 — Kolkata Awaits

Sharadiya · 2026 Teaser

She is being shaped in clay, once again.

Before the lights go up across Kolkata, before the dhak begins, the story always starts the same way — in the quiet workshops of Kumartuli, where the goddess takes form one layer at a time.

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16–21 October 2026

Shashthi to Vijaya Dashami

Kolkata, West Bengal

Where it all begins

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Durga Puja 2026 · Official Schedule

26 Sep

Mahalaya

Pitru Paksha ends, Devi Paksha begins — the Goddess's journey to earth starts.

16 Oct

Maha Shashthi

Bodhan — the ceremonial awakening and unveiling of the Goddess's idol.

17 Oct

Maha Saptami

Nabapatrika Snan — the ritual bathing of nine sacred plants beside the idol.

19 Oct

Maha Ashtami

The most sacred day — Kumari Puja, Pushpanjali, and Sandhi Puja at twilight.

20 Oct

Maha Navami

Maha Aarti and the dhunuchi dance, the last full day before farewell.

21 Oct

Vijaya Dashami

Sindoor Khela and visarjan — the Goddess returns home, until next year.

Tithi timings follow the Panchang and may vary slightly by region — always confirm with your local puja committee closer to the date.

A Festival of Homecoming

Some wait all year for the scent of incense that announces her arrival.

For others, it's the moment they step into a pandal and feel like they've finally come home. Durga Pujo is a memory, a healing, everything held sacred and everything never meant to be forgotten. From the first stroke of clay in the potters' lanes of Kumartuli to the final touch of sindoor at Dashami, the festival is shaped each year with care, colour, and centuries of devotion.

It is where mythology meets modernity, where art meets soul, where the everyday meets the divine. This teaser is the first window into the 2026 season — the moods, the artistry, and the homecoming still ahead.

কুমারটুলিWhere the Goddess is Born

North of the city, on the banks of the Hooghly, a quarter of potters has shaped Bengal's most sacred season for nearly three centuries — one layer of straw and river clay at a time.

Creating the goddess.

Durga idol being shaped from clay in a Kumartuli workshop

Straw frame, river clay, and decades of inherited technique

Artisan painting the face of a Durga idol in Kumartuli

An artisan's steady hand, weeks before the city even notices Pujo is near

300+ yrs

Of continuous idol-making tradition along the Hooghly riverbank, passed from one generation of artisans to the next.

150+ families

Of clay model-makers work and live in Kumartuli's narrow lanes, supplying the vast majority of Kolkata's community pujas.

Worldwide

Idols shaped here now travel as far as London, New York and Auckland, carrying Kumartuli's craft to the Bengali diaspora.

First frames of the season

Scroll sideways through a handful of moods from the road to Pujo 2026 — devotion, colour, and the city getting ready to celebrate.

Mythology

Durga's eternal role in cosmic balance

Kolkata

Where the dhak echoes, and devotion dances

Heritage

Worship of strength, celebration of heritage

Artistry

From clay to colour, from silence to celebration

West Bengal

Sharodotsav, season of the goddess

Durga idol sculpting in a Kolkata workshop

Kumartuli

The craft behind every pandal's centrepiece

"Durga Puja is not just a festival — it's a feeling that binds us all."

— A Bengali tradition, retold every autumn

UNESCO · 2021

In 2021, UNESCO recognised Kolkata's Durga Puja as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity — a formal nod to what Bengal has always known. The festival isn't only worship; it is emotion, identity, and inherited legacy, carried forward by artisans like those of Kumartuli and communities that turn the city into a living museum each autumn.

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