You're cordially invited!
Please join us for the beautiful Mahalaya celebration - a soulful beginning to the Durga Puja season!
Date & Time: 9:00 AM Sun, 21st Sep 2025
Location: Park Road Park, Charlotte, NC
Cultural Performances
Bengali Brunch
Adda Community Vibes
Come with family and friends to enjoy music, food and festive spirit under the open sky. All are welcome—let’s celebrate together!
Schedule
Utsob e prankhule hoichoi hoye jak! Aaye re chute aaye Pujor gondho eseche….
9:00 AM:
We start assembling and setting up the venue. Mahalaya Agmoni Song/ Mahisasura Mardini will make the vibrant "pujo pujo smell" or পুজো পুজো গন্ধ environment.
We will have gorom chaa with taa! (Tea & Biscuits)
10:00 AM:
We will start with our cultural program. The team is working on various items; we will publish those soon. We are anticipating 1 hour +- participation.
11:30 AM:
Everyone will put their hands on the final preparation for our brunch. Men will prepare fresh Luchi onsite and our food experts will do their jobs. Mahalaya special Niramish Bhoj :
Prothom paatey:
Gondhoraj Ghol
Fulko Luchi, Shahi Aloor dum, Narkel Cholar Dal, Veg Fried Rice, Chanar Kalia, Aamer Chutney, Papad.
Mishti mukh:
Chanar Jilipi , Boonde
Sesh paatey:
Mishti Paan
Paan shot
1:30 PM:
We all put our hands to pack up!
Mahalaya Registration
Adults - $20 | Kids - $10 | Visiting Parents - Free
Please fill the form below and Zelle your contribution to Ananda (QR code below). If you don't have Zelle, please mention in the comment and mail us at contact@utsob.org. We will arrange alternative payments.
About Mahalaya
The traditional six day countdown to Mahasaptami starts from Mahalaya. Goddess Durga visits the earth for only four days but seven days prior to the Pujas, starts the Mahalaya. The enchanting voice of Birendra Krishna Bhadra fill up the predawn hours of the day thus marking the beginning of “devipaksha” and the beginning of the count-down of Durga. It is an auspicious Indian occasion observed seven days before the Durga Puja, and heralds the advent of Durga, the Goddess of supreme power. The dark fortnight of Aswayuja is known as the Mahalaya Paksha or the fortnight specially sacred for offering oblations to the departed ancestors. Durga – goddess of deliverance – comes to earth on the seventh day after the autumn new moon. She is depicted by the ‘kumors’ or potters as a resplendent golden figure standing on a lion’s back, each of her ten arms bearing a particular weapon, as she triumphs over the demon Mahisasura.
