25th October, 2010 is the day of the most awaited launch meeting of the Working Group Golf of the EWP Water Stewardship Program which is completely based on the water management programe. For those who do not have enough knowledge about the program Let us first have a brief idea.
In the Year 2008 the programe was announced under frame of “Aquawareness” which is a running issue of the Water Vision for Europe. The programe was launched with a strategic workshop of stakeholders from various parts of the continent mostly related with water sector. The basic concept is to offer a tool to communicate and award specifically for the responsible water users through the development of a common framework for assessing, implementing and communicating Sustainable Water Management. Due to its much enriched concept over the perfect process of water preservation the programe is a success at the time of its announcement in the various water sectors all over the continent as well as the global Water Stewardship process. Various consequences on the issue of climate change and the increased number of events related with the water scarcity, droughts and floods help this program to reach to the mass just because of the awareness process. The programe has a huge demand to restore the natural wealth for the betterment for living existence to continue on this planet. The basic concept is to use natural water resource in a more reasonable manner.
After a brief introduction about the meeting will be continued on the current development of the water awareness in Europe and it is expected to get more and more ideas from the participants to expand the concept. The meeting will be also focused on the future perspective of the water Stewardship scheme in the golf sector with all its huge scope and strategy and elaborate participation. It is also expected to have more active participation in this programe through such a meeting. Such a activity is really appreciable to restore the natural wealth of this planet. We all expect a huge success and congratulate them for such a programe launching.

A man in white dhoti and khadi-kurta holding a long handled umbrella and a teacher in occupation with some divine ideologies was the perfect gentleman through out the last decade. This kind of ideal citizen was responsible for any renaissance in Bengal that may be on cultural issue or may be for social reformation. Such an ideal citizen evokes the betterment for the country as well as the society in spite of his own struggle with poverty. With the huge economical change through out the world and with the enlargement of the phenomenon called globalization the concept of ideal citizen has changed completely. The teacher is replaced by a smart, English speaking, confident gentleman or a lady with sharp attitude with complete corporate get up. A man with a tie having the dream to win the entire world is the perfect citizen in the recent era. They have the confidence to establish the nation in the global platform at a very respectable position.

With the concept of ideal citizen the so called “work culture” has also undergone a huge change in the recent era. Bengalis are no more confined with the 10-5 concept rather they became more flexible in terms of their work schedule. The new age people do not mind to work for the whole night just to reach the highest level of success in their respective fields. Bengalis have turned out to be more careerist than the by gone days. Not only the male but the women of Bengal are working side by side just like the other gender. They also focus more on their professional field and simultaneously continue with their personal matter in a very successful way. Bengalis are no more identified with the caste and the family values rather they are better known through their professional identification.

Undoubtedly this shift of concept has brought a radical change in the lives of Bengalis. It is a fact that this change has brought the chance to adjust with the global situation and the Bengalis are really doing well in comparison with the other countries with their professional field all over the world. Simultaneously this is also a fact that the Bengalis are loosing their identification as the unique cultural inhabitants. They have become much more western in terms if their culture. They are no more unique in this definition. Bringing the whole world into the single global village is the main concept of Globalization and the Bengalis have made this in a perfect way through changing their entire work culture.

The immersion of idols of Goddess Durga in the river Ganga is a threat to the numerous creatures and its flora and fauna. Such polluted water endangers the lives of many aqautic creatures. We all enjoy the merrimaking process during the Puja and completely forget about the envioronmental factors to maintain. Specifically the immersion of idols On Dashami causes a great damage and disturbs the ecological balance of water world of river Ganga. Not only the idol but different Biodegradable wastes like flowers, garlands, leaves and solid wastes minimize the oxygen level in the water affecting the envioronment. Basically the beautifully carved idols are made of plastic, cement and plaster of paris and are painted with toxic dyes. Such chemicals tranforms into poison just after its contact with water causing the deadful affects for the marine life.
The end of the festival brings smile to the ecologists as this year the Kolkata Corporation and the port Trust authority has taken a number of steps to control this fatal and hatmful activity. Fortunately enough there are a number of methods that can enhance the enjoynent without aafetcing the encioonment. People are using oco frinedly idols to take control of this factor of pollution. Morover the Calcutta High Court on October 5, 2010 has issued an order just before the Puja to clear the river as early as possible to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Due to this starict direction the KMC has set a number of mini waste bins at every ghat so that the puja organisers can use them to drop flowers and piths. The KMC has engaed more than 350 personnel just to remove the idols of goddess Durga from the river within 24 hrs. Even this is the first time when the Kolkata Port Trust has joind hands with the corporation to make this cleaning proces a huge success. It has decided that the whole expense will be divided between the Corporation and the Port Trust. It is expectd that the distant dram of a clean Ganga will be a reality in this year due to so many joint activities and the strict but essential rule of the High Court. The marine life will be at rlief and can live their pollutionfree and harmless lives.

This is our proud privilege to welcome you all at the most cheerful and celebrated festival of Bengal Durga Puja. This festival possesses various names in different states but Kolkata is the most important venue of this festival of invocation of mother goddess. The city of joy welcomes you all from each and every corner of this planet to be a part of this gaiety may not be through your physical presence but you can taste the flavour over the internet now. The city changes its regular look in these few days and accepts a novel furnishing. It is really a great thing to be a part of the merrymaking mood of this festival. From food to dress, from entertainment to rituals this is the perfect time to explore a completely different replica of the city of joy.

The invocation starts from 13th October 2010 on the auspicious occasion of Mahasosthi and it will go up to 17th October 2010 on the occasion of Bijaya Dashami. Every Bengali along with the city itself engages in the celebration forgetting all other involvement though the preparation begins from a long time ago. This festival is the refreshing occasion for a number of Bengalis to gather energy for the forthcoming year to continue with the regular and routine bound life. They try to get every bit of the enjoyment and gather in the core chamber of their hearts for storage for the next one-year.

The celebration of this festival in the city is not very new one. It is an age-old process ritual that can take you back to the 12th century. The time has made a number of changes in the concept. The social and religious degrees of this festival have huge reformations and have the touch of cosmopolitanism. It is no more a festival of some ritual rather it is an occasion to enjoy a week’s break for many. More over this is the ideal time for any literary publication and a number of releases on Bengali music albums especially in the name of “puja special”. So let us not waste the time and start the merrymaking process and get the actual flavour of the invocation of mother Goddess with new dress, new songs, new publications, new hope and new life being part of the celebration.

Ebizzkolkata welcomes you all in a very warm manner to be a part of this huge merrymaking occasion of invoking mother goddess. Wishing you all a very cheerful and happy Sharodyotsov. We expect and request you all to maintain the safety and security during the festival to keep the city and its citizens proud.

The hunger of the senior players in the Indian team made the huge victory in the Mohali test match against Australia. This match made the statement very clear that the flavor of test cricket is still encouraging and the senior cricketers like Sachin, Dravid, Laxman and Zaheer, of this country maintained their responsibility at a great level to bring the victory. The test match was tremendously exciting till the last moment as the Australians were at the superior position from the very beginning. The partnership of the Ishant Sharma and VVS Laxman at the second innings made this victory possible. Indian cricket team showed its greed and strong ability to fight up to the last moment to win the game. It is a great sign of encouragement for the younger players of the team to learn a lot how to turn the result of a game with an extreme constancy and commitment.

The match was undoubtedly more interesting than the Chennai Super Kings-Warriors final. It was Laxman whose innings was the key factor for the winning in spite of his back injury. His performance with the immense maturity made the path clear for the team to have the victory. His 73 runs is an unbeaten score for the team in this test match. Ishant Sharma was a great support for him with a partnership of 81 runs in the second innings. Even using a runner Laxman was successful of being the captain of the wrecking ship and hold the key till the last moment of victory. Even his partnership with last-man Pragyan Ojha helps to rescue the team from the depths of 8-124 in their chase for 216 to succeed. His sparkling performance brought the smile for the country at the end of the day of tremendous excitement. The test match showed that the maturity and consistency of the seniors are still essential for the Indian team to bring such a victory while the youngsters need to learn a lot rather than giving support from the back of the field.

Durga puja is the most auspicious festival for the Bengalis. Almost all the Bengalis starts the preparation of this festival from a longtime ago with their shopping and planning. Though the festival starts with the “nabapatrika boron” on Mahasaptami but actually the flavor begins with the sunrise on the day of Mahalaya, just before the exact seven days before the puja.
According to the Hindu ritual this is the day to start the invocation of the supreme power of Devi Durga to come to this earth. This is the day when the puja begins. Undoubtedly the day is a promising one and the priests start their prayer to the Goddess to evoke. Hindu mythology speaks about the story of Uma who comes to her parental house with her children in the Himalayas for the four days and her journey begins at the dawn of Mahalaya starting the Devi paksha. This is also the day of remembrance. People give their Tarpan to their beloved standing in the water of the river Ganga. This can be said that the festive mood begins on this occasion in the autumn.
The importance of the day has been celebrating with a special feature of the innovative radio programme called” Mahisasura Mardini” by the legend Birendra Krishna Bhadra. The programme contains a shivering recitation from the scriptural verses of “chnadi kavya”. This portion of the audio montage is the central attraction of the entire morning. Till today almost all the Bengali families give an alarm to listen to the programme. Bengalis celebrates the dawn of Devipaksha for last six decades. One can say that the biggest festival is incomplete without this broadcast. This has become the integral part of the celebration.
Actually the programme tells the story of the appearance of Devi Durga by the Trinity power Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswara to give an end of the cruelty of Mahisasura. The enchanting mantras of Ya Devi Sarbabhuteshu sakti rupeno sanksthita, namasteswai, namasteswai, namasteswai namo namaha invites and invokes the earth the supreme power, the mother goddess, to make the earth enlightened and free from all evil spirit just for a safe survival of the mankind.
We continue with the same intensity of mantra and invocation with religious chanting till today. We devote our prayer with all our purity but the mankind is not safe and the earth is not clear from evil spirit. This greatest creation of God, the planet called the earth, is now full of sorrow, full of malice, full of violence. Peace is no where instead war is everywhere. The mahisasura that lives in all human beings is now imposing his power over the purity and humanity. Human beings love to engage in war just for some lands or money. Innocent people including children are losing their lives due to the incidents caused by terrorism. The peace of several nations is messed up just for some religious binaries. The poor becomes poor and most of the people do not do not look with a turn at the beggar sitting on the opposite footpath before entering into an expensive shopping complex or an amusement park. Mankind is really losing its identity and actual definition of its existence. The time has come to invoke the some supreme power juts to restore the values of humanity from its path of complete decay. The time has come to say and give an appeal to the supreme power “jago Maa Durga, Jago tumi jago….”

17th September 2010 was the day to evoke the God of architecture Biswakarma. Not only this year but also this day on the calendar always mentioned as a special day for all such industries related with architecture, small industry or any that is related with machine or equipment. This is the day to evoke the lord of tools and equipments. Undoubtedly this was the day to celebrate a holiday for each and every person who works with any kind of equipments. Just like any other festival this day brought a huge level of happiness and cheering up for many people specially who works very hard at the factories of any kind.

It was also a day of celebration of a little boy who is a daily passenger from Bongaon to Barrackpore just to sell a bag full of flowers. This was really a great day for him as he managed to sell all his flowers long time before than the other days. Just like other day he got into the train to go back to his home where his old grand parents and two little sisters are waiting. The boy at his 12 years of age is the sole earning person of the family. Yes, this is tough to belief but this is the fact. He was having a serious fever and even he was not able to sit in a stable condition. The tears in his eyes could not stop due to a severe fear what will happen if he faced any trouble on the way back? What will happen to his family if he could not go back to his home? He was having all the money that he earned in a bag but the little boy was not in a condition to give a little attention to his assets. A few good-hearted people offered a packet of biscuit and a bottle of water to give him a little relief at least. He was also given medicine but the boy was constantly crying and shivering. May be that was the sheer fear of having lost himself or his life. May be that was the tension related with his health and about the family for which he is everything.

This is just an instance of a little boy; A little truth behind a celebrating day. In a country like India this can never be expected that such a celebrating and cheerful day can bring smile to everybody even at least to every child of this land. The child is not responsible for his condition rather he has lost his childhood and trying hard to live and help to live other four souls. If the heart of only 12 years can take such a bold decision then the question arises that is it too difficult to take a little measure from at least 30% of the entire population? Is it too difficult for the people of this land to minimize the expense over the celebration a little bit and help hundreds of such children to live their childhood? Is it too difficult to make this creation of God a place of living in the true sense of the term?

If we recognize Mahendra Singh Dhoni as the caption of new Indian cricket spirit then we have to consider Rahul Gandhi as the new face of Indian politics. Undoubtedly he is the pioneer of political evaluation among the youth of India. Nobody can deny the stand of this 40 years old inheriting of Gandhi family in the progress and performance of Indian National Congress in the last Lok shabha election. The hard work and passion of politics makes Rahul truly the follower of his father and his grand mother. Congress can never deny his part in the Uttar Pradesh politics. He has changed the scenario completely. Now he turns his attention to West Bengal and he is determined completely to break the left rule in the next year Bidhan shabha election. His three days campaign in this state will definitely affect the position of Congress in this state. Rahul has announced in a determined voice that Congress will support trinamul to flash the left out of this land but the process can never be self insulting. Congress will continue with the grace of its long history and will never surrender to any spirit.

Undoubtedly the youth of India finds their replica in Rahul Gnadhi and feels the excitedly and passionate about the politics. India does not have any such young politician before Rahul and he has done his part to awake the youth of India in a satisfactory manner. No only that he is trying hard to bring the prestige and grace of the party in each state of this country. There is need to say that he is very much successful in his part of action. It is also expected that his attention to West Bengal definitely make a huge difference in the performance of Congress in this state. Even the youth of this national party in this state was really missing someone to encourage them more. Rahul has don his part in a very perfect manner to give enough encouragement and courage during his three days stay in this state. The result of his effort will be published in the next year after Bidhan Sabha election.

Eid ul fitr is the Muslim festival celebrated at the end of the Ramadan month. It is a religious celebration for the Muslim community. Ramadan is the month of fasting and the festival of Eid come as the end of this month. This is the celebration of fast breaking. The festival brings the end of the fasting month. Each and every member of the community greets each other with congratulation words “eid Mubarak”. The festival ode id means the celebration of the end of all vicious and corrupted habits. Waking up early and having the breakfast signifies the end of the long fasting month in a very religious and pious manner. This is the festival to commemorate the victory over self control and chastity, illustrating salvation and rejuvenation. The community celebrates the day with a holy prayer wearing new clothes. Eid ul fitr is the most celebrating and cherish able festival for every Muslim all over the globe. They prefer to celebrate this day with friends and families wearing new clothes and jewelries applying perfume as well. Eid prayer is the most significant ritual for the community. It is performed in any open area like big fields or in the squares at the mosques. All men members of the community gather to join the prayer. The holy prayer is followed by a Khutba and then a dua that is nothing else but a prayer for forgiveness for all kinds of sins along with an urge to the god for the acceptance of the one month long fasting. Each and every member of the community needs to greet each other and this is a compulsory for the enhancement of brotherhood within the community.
A number of people prefer to go to the graveyards to show their respect to the dead ones in such a holiday. They try to fill their gap by spending a little bit of time at the graveyard with their loved ones who are no more. Each and every Muslim needs to give at least the basic foodstuffs or the same amount of cash to the poor and needy members of the community before the prayer. It is really appreciable that such a cheerful occasion brings smile to each and everybody including the needy sector of the community. This ritual; definitely adds an extra flavor in the celebration and enjoyment of the festival.

Ganesha Chaturthi, known as Vinayaka Chaturthi is the festival to celebrate the birthday of the elephant headed son of Shiva and Parvati. Ganesha is the God of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune. Hindus celebrate this festival to bestow their devotion to this God during the festival. It continues for ten long days. This was actually the family festival for the Peshwas, during their rule in the state of Maharastra. Now it is celebrated in a huge and wide manner. Once it was celebrated with the concept to fill up the gap between Brahmin and non- Brahmin community. Undoubtedly this is the festival of community participation and the festival encourages the huge involvement of mass. Ganesha is the god if wisdom and prosperity, each and every Hindu evokes the God before starting any new project or task. It is a common belief that lord Ganesha never discourages any devotee and sends the person back without fulfilling the desire or demand. A number of mythological stories tell the actual fact behind the birth of Lord Ganesha.

The festival of Ganesh Chaturthi has run a long way. It has many changes through the passing passage of time and fulfills the requirement of the society at every stage. From just a family celebration of the Peshwas through the way to evoke nationalism and brotherhood, this festival has turned out to be the huge celebration for the Hindus. The festival starts with the installation of the statues on the platform. Now a day, communities compete with each other in terms of the size of the idol or even with the gorgeousness of the celebration. The lord comes to each and every house to bestow the prosperity and good fortune. Being the honorable guests of the house Ganesha enjoys the hospitability of the members. Ganesha spends ten days with the family and with community and get the huge worships from the devotees from the very core of their hearts. They really enjoy worshiping this God with all kinds of devotion and various arrangements incorporating lighting and decoration. Once the festival is over, the process of immersion is also attractive and enjoyable. The idols are carried on decorated floats to immerse in the water. This journey also demands a special mention being very colourful and so enjoyable and merrymaking. People come to be a witness of this procession of immersion Ganapati idols from all over the world. Such processions are accompanied by drum beats, devoational songs and dancing as well by the holy words and screaming of the devotees with “Ganesh Maharaj ki Jai!!” even there is a plea to the lord to come back next year with all his blessings to bestow on them in the words “Ganapati bappa morya, pudcha varshi laukar ya.”