From Kolkata with Love... 🌷

The video is from 2022

✊🏼 (লাল দেখে আক্রমণ করবেন না আবার প্লিজ!)

Who wanna join ? 😏

(And have some chicken)

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

Since when did we have a requirement of banning something for faith? All these years we have celebrated pujo and we never ever had the need for it then why now?

Isn't this saffronisation and an imposition of purity culture?

Also, before the dimwits come at me I don't even drink alcohol. It's about the need for this and what this government is trying to do.

Asaram Bapu, born Asumal Sirumalani, was a prominent Indian self-styled spiritual leader who established hundreds of ashrams worldwide. In 2018, he was convicted of r@ping a minor girl at his Jodhpur ashram and sentenced to life imprisonment. In 2023, he received a second life sentence in a separate 2013 r@pe case.

🤣🤣🤣 My little brother asked me, and honestly even I got confuse for some time. That's why decided to share it with you guys.

Just a reply to the charlatan

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.

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