Bidai is a tearful event. Even the girl who has never cried in her life will start shedding tears thinking that she will have to leave her parents’ house. But at the same time it is also the beginning of a new life with new people. In some families bidai Read more…
Holding Dorpon and Lokkhir bhandar: On the day of wedding the bride holds a small round brass object called “dorpon” and small wooden “Lokkhir bhandar” or Goddess Laxmi’s pot. “Lokkhir bhandar” symbolises women being the good luck charm for prosperity in the family. The groom also holds “dorpon” from the Read more…
After getting refreshed with divine Himalayan touch, we spent two nights in a hotel at Salt Lake (Kolkata) for my mother’s routine checkup at Apollo hospital. In the morning at around 7.30am after breakfast we started for Mayapur. Our pre-booked cab driver Pranab Das was a wonderful man – very Read more…
Wedding day finally arrives….In Bengali wedding “bor” or the groom has to wear “topor” on his head and white “dhoti”. But these days groom usually wear ready-made dhoti of different colors to give the best look on his wedding day. Relatives of the bride go to the groom’s house for Read more…