Words cannot explain how amazing this Pandal is. My wife came out of the pandal and said she got goosebumps inside her brain. Not sure what that means but I think you can imagine that it’s a different experience altogether.
The theme of this Pandal is Nakshi Kanthar Math. It’s a world of Gond Art. I would like to call it, the trillion dots and lines.
After visiting the pandal, I did some research on this and learnt that Nakshi Kanthar Math is a popular story/poem written in 1929 by Bengali poet Jasimuddin. The story is about an intricate quilt made in the memory of a lover. It’s a tragedy like most popular love stories.
Back to the Pandal, the whole Pandal is made with dots and lines. Repeated patterns of dots and lines in rich colors to make animals, figures etc. They have used dry leaves, cloth, straw, bamboo, baskets and painted using Gond Art on them.
It was the prettiest Pandal visited and we spent about an hour or so there. Every time we saw it, we were amazed noticing more detail. Respect the people who made it. Fabulous work.
You are going to see so many photos of the Pandal below. That said, photos do no justice to the real experience.
Please zoom into the images and see them. You would understand the shear beauty then.
I wrote this blog and saw the photos so many times. I wish I had better photos taken of the place. These photos don’t do justice to the beauty.
What stuck with me was something even deeper. They spent so much time in making this. Meticulous work with extreme concentration and something of this massive scale. And this will all be torn apart in under 10 days. This is crazy man. Crazy.!!
I understand the impermanence of things, change is the only constant and all such philosophies. But this is extreme.
