Fair

DURGAPUR SWEET FAIR

Sushil Rudra

” Fair” meaning in Bengali ” Mela “. Mela actually is a placeof assimilation, peoples come together for enjoyment, or to purchase something, or to get various types of foods , drinks, dessert etc. Bengal Mela in Winter is a regular feature . It is like a social ceremony . Every year Various types of Mela are organised like Agricultural Mela, Handicraft Mela, Food fair,Pous Mela , Book Fair etc.

Bengali Mela in Winter is a special event. We wait for it to enjoy ourselves with friends and spouse .

Winter in Bengal like a foreigner

With numerous birds from aboard

Come to visit the lakes of Bengal

Spreading their presence with beautiful

Flute – like Songs in different scale and voice

Choruibhati*is the special events in Winter

In Bengal ,groups of men and women,

Boys and girls busy to travel with buses

Or private vehicles to Mythan ,Masanjor

might be Shantiniketan ,The Tagore’s paradise

To see pousmela and Bouls of Bengal.

Winter comes with gorgeous dress and bitter cold

Peoples are to dresses with warm clothes

But poor people can’t afford it , So they face to

hurdles and pain all the season and ultimately die.

Winter special mela begins in Durgapur

The Sweet fest with lots of stalls

Where visitors gather to taste sitabhog

Or nalen gurer sandesh , mihidana and

various kind of sweet of different places

Of Bengal, someone tasting Biriany with chicken rost

My daughter standing in front of a aachar shop

Tasting almost aachar purchased two of these

Enjoy the day long .

Christmas festival and mela ,Choruibhati

And traveling with friends in new places

Like Hajarduary of Murshidabal or Bandel Church

Stimulates monotonous life with great joy.

Only the poverty-stricken people can’t enjoy it

They wait for summer to get enjoy. We never miss Bengali Mela in Winter