00:31Good afternoon. This is our 43-year celebration of Durga Puja at Mangalore, Lalbagh.
00:41And we have here nearly 150 members, family.
00:49So I am from Milke, Puja karta hoon.
00:53Not only the Bengali people participate here.
00:56Here, Bengali, Marathi, and Konkuni, and local, Mangaloreans, everybody participate in this Puja.
01:04It is not the culture of Bengali, but everybody participate here.
01:09So our Puja is called Devi Durga.
01:12Durga is called Lakshmi, Saraswati, Ganapati, and Kartike.
01:17Four or five devotees are Puja.
01:19And above all, we not only do the work from Puja or Durga, and we also proceed to Navadurga.
01:30Here, Navadurga is very much famous in Bengali, there in Mangalore.
01:34So we do Navadurga, that is in other form, not in that structural distance, Durga.
01:41That is, here you can show the other way, nine tree, representing the nine Devi.
01:51So we have to do the nine trees, and we call them nine trees.
01:57Nine means nine, and the tree means leaves.
02:00So nine trees, and the tree, and the tree, and the tree, and the tree, and the tree, and the
02:07tree.
02:07So this is a very important thing.
02:10And we have said 170, 170, 150 community in Bengali.
02:17They are in different communities.
02:19Somebody working as a professional service, or somebody doing a doctor.
02:25Most of the, a lot of doctors are here.
02:27And engineers at MRPL, and businessmen, that all, ARAKA business, super business.
02:32And goldsmith, worker, and manufacturer.
02:36So these are the community.
02:38So, how did you do it?
02:40Murti.
02:40Yeah, Murti, the people from Bengal, Mr. Madhusudhan Paal.
02:47So, every year, Pooja will become our Murti.
02:50Not only that, he prepared for upcoming idol also.
02:55He prepared upcoming idol.
02:56He prepared for the people from Bengal.
02:58He prepared for the people from Bengal.
03:03Okay.
03:05Priest from Bengal?
03:06Priest also from Bengal.
03:09Priest, and food maker, drum beater, all from Bengal.
03:16That Pooja ri jo hai, oh, Bengal ka hai.
03:19Jo khana bana da, oh, Bengal ka hai.
03:21Jo sweet bana da, oh, Bengal ka hai.
03:23So, we are trying to get the Bengali, because we are migrated.
03:29We long back, we came here 30 years before.
03:32So, somebody working, somebody business.
03:34So, this is our homeland.
03:36Ye abhi homeland ho gaya.
03:37Mangalore amara abna desh ho gaya.
03:41This is why Pooja karta hai.
03:43To Pooja mein sabhi log ka participat ho ta hai.
03:46Good name.
03:47Hamara naam Asis Kumar Rai.
03:48Ham ee community ka vice president ho.
03:51Namah, the Pooja committee, Bengali association.
03:55This is the 43 years.
03:57We are celebrating the Pooja.
03:59And I am the oldest one.
04:01And we have 500 members, Bengali association, in this Bengali association.
04:08But people are going and coming.
04:11And this Pooja is our five days Pooja.
04:14And we are doing it for 43 years.
04:18And people are coming, enjoying here.
04:21Please come next year, everybody.
04:22I am welcoming everybody.
04:24I am inviting to everybody.
04:25We are welcome everybody.
