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Worship Walk
BONEDI BARI PUJO WALK

To many, Durga puja in Kolkata has come to mean wading through traffic to get to the pandals teeming with people. But in another part of Kolkata, pujas are all about traditions that are nearly centuries old. Puja festivities in family homes have an intimacy that is missing in the Baraowari Pujo (public funded pujas).

Calcutta Walks, one of the first companies to host city walks in Kolkata hosts a Bonedi Bari Pujo walk every year. They take tourists to a select few of these iconic home pujas where one can watch the festivities up close while being regaled with stories of their origin and vignettes of their past. There is a saying about how goddess Durga comes to wear her jewellery in Jorasanko Dawn house. The family was known to have bought not