Daily Star, Dhaka
Friday, February 15, 2013
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Hindu religious people are celebrating Saraswati Puja Friday in the city and elsewhere in the country with festivity.
Hundreds of Hindu devotees and visitors from all walks of life are celebrating Saraswati Puja at Dhaka University through traditional gaiety as elsewhere across the country on Friday, with prayers for wisdom and arts.
As in the previous years, the Jagannath Hall playground wore a festive look with colorfully decorated Puja mandaps (pavilions) that different departments of DU erected to offer prayers to Goddess Saraswati.
The Bani Archana, one of the vital parts of the Puja, also performs at Begum Rokeya and Shamsun Nahar halls at the university.
Saraswati Puja also celebrating at Dhakeswari temple, Siddheswari temple, Ram-Krishna Mission, Supreme Court premises and in many educational institutions, including Buet, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka Medical College, Stamford University, Dhaka College, and Eden Girls' College
Puja was held in the midst of anti Islamic-fundamentalist Shahbag movement. These reports tell us that schools and colleges celebrated Saraswati Puja, including several pujas within Dhaka University campus (see Bhorer Kagoj) but that is not allowed in Hindu-majority Indian West Bengal state (for the past 2 decades.)
See Amardeshonline.com and its daily print edition in Bangladesh:
Friday, February 15, 2013
File Photo Hundreds of Hindu devotees and visitors from all walks of life are celebrating Saraswati Puja at Dhaka University through traditional gaiety as elsewhere across the country on Friday, with prayers for wisdom and arts.
As in the previous years, the Jagannath Hall playground wore a festive look with colorfully decorated Puja mandaps (pavilions) that different departments of DU erected to offer prayers to Goddess Saraswati.
The Bani Archana, one of the vital parts of the Puja, also performs at Begum Rokeya and Shamsun Nahar halls at the university.
Saraswati Puja also celebrating at Dhakeswari temple, Siddheswari temple, Ram-Krishna Mission, Supreme Court premises and in many educational institutions, including Buet, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka Medical College, Stamford University, Dhaka College, and Eden Girls' College
Saraswati Puja in Dhaka Prothom Alo Feb 15 2013; in Bengali, http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2013-02-15/news/329465
Saraswati Puja in Bangladesh Bhorer Kagoj Feb 15
2013; in Bengaii, http://www.bhorerkagoj.net/new/blog/2013/02/15/103567.phpPuja was held in the midst of anti Islamic-fundamentalist Shahbag movement. These reports tell us that schools and colleges celebrated Saraswati Puja, including several pujas within Dhaka University campus (see Bhorer Kagoj) but that is not allowed in Hindu-majority Indian West Bengal state (for the past 2 decades.)
See Amardeshonline.com and its daily print edition in Bangladesh:
35 Hindu Deities
“ Sarwasati Devi’ desecrated
at Agoiljhara Upazila of Barisal District in
Bangladesh :
February 11,
2013
Bangladesh
Minority Watch (BDMW) received information that
some
perpetrators with religiously motivated attacked on Sarwasati Devi on 10th of February, 2013 in the night, destroyed the Hindu deities and desecrated. As a result of such
abrupt attack some goods procured for puja purpose has also been destroyed. This incident took place at Agoiljhara Upazila of Barisal District in Bangladesh.
perpetrators with religiously motivated attacked on Sarwasati Devi on 10th of February, 2013 in the night, destroyed the Hindu deities and desecrated. As a result of such
abrupt attack some goods procured for puja purpose has also been destroyed. This incident took place at Agoiljhara Upazila of Barisal District in Bangladesh.
Due to such
unfortunate acts on the part of perpetrators the Minority
Hindu communities are in great anxiety.
Hindu communities are in great anxiety.
In this
connection Mr. Joydeb Chandra Paul – victim lodged a Case
No- 2 dated 09/02/13 against some unknown
perpetrators at Agoiljhara police station.
But police could
arrest only one perpetrator till writing of this report.
arrest only one perpetrator till writing of this report.
sources link, in Bengali:
http://www.amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2013/02/11/187398
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