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The video is from 2022

I keep seeing this come up whenever the non-veg debate starts. Someone will inevitably say, “Na na, amra pandel er bhitore toh non-veg khai na. Non-veg carry o kori na.”

Why do we feel the need to say this? Karon, the reality is a little different.

A lot of us go pandel hopping, stop at restaurants, eat biryani, mutton, fish, whatever we want, and then when there is food left, we get it packed and carry it with us while continuing to visit pandels. Eta toh khub normal. What else are we supposed to do? Restaurant e kheye food baki thakle phele debo?

Obviously not. We take the parcel with us. We go to the next pandel. Then the next one. Eventually we go home and eat it.

A lot of people actually do this. So why are we pretending that we don't?

And this is not even about arguing that people should carry non-veg into pandels. It's about acknowledging that people already do, and there is nothing inherently shameful about it.

What bothers me is the almost apologetic tone of “We do eat non-veg, but outside the pandel. We don't carry it inside.”

As if we need to immediately clarify this to prove that we are still “respectable” Bengalis or that our Pujo is somehow sufficiently religious.

Why?

We don't need to hide the fact that we eat non-veg during Pujo. We don't need to pretend that the food we are carrying around came from somewhere other than the restaurant we just ate at.

Pujo for a lot of us is pandel hopping, adda, friends, family, restaurants, food and everything in between. Khawa-dawa is literally a part of the Pujo experience.

So yes, amra non-veg khai. Amra restaurant-e khai. Food baki thakle parcel kori. And sometimes that parcel comes with us while we're pandel hopping.

And that's perfectly normal.

We don't need to keep saying “na na, pandel-er bhitore khai na” just to satisfy some outsider's idea of what Bengali Pujo is supposed to look like.

Let people celebrate Pujo the way they actually celebrate it.

Just a reply to the charlatan

লাজুক কমিশন

Minerals দেওয়া Barmuda

Also can anybody recommend a good place to buy male peacock cichlids in kolkata (it's for a different project)?

Bangali sekhache durga pujo kibhabe korte hobe

Please do your part in tagging this fraud baba in your biriyanis and rolls

I don't know why princep ghat gives me some mysterious haunted shadowy aura!!My spirit will roam around this area at night forever!!

Naki abar S.I.R hobe 😝😝

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I was scrolling reels and i saw a masala advertisement where somebody had replied to a comment that "bengali men are undesirable". Why is it so? Ive also heard stereotypes that bengali men are fragile and feminine whereas their women are masculine and dominating. I mean why is there such a stereotype. Subhash Chandra Bose was also a bengali man and he's a celebrated leader.

Ive seen non bengalis reject rishtas from bengali people too but never heard a proper reason and only heard that hes bengali thats why we rejected.

(A curious non bengali teen here, i was told this community would be better to ask this)

Edit: This is neither a ragebait post nor a post to demean a group. Feel free to educate and point out, I learn something new everyday