Purulia- Part-05=Festival & Culture

Manasa Pua: Manasa is the Goddess of Snake. It comes at the last day of Sraban month of Bengali Calendar. This time is rainy season in Bengal Calendar. Generally on 15th or 16th of the August month people worship such Goddess of Snake. It is the faith of common people mainly of villagers that admire to the Goddess Manasa will protect them from snake bite; because most of the farmers are passed their time at the cultivation field, so naturally snake bite fears are very common of them.
Chata Parab: This is a famous Santali Parab or festival. According to the custom and tradition, the representative of the Phnchakot  Royal Family strat this festival by rising one white umbrella. This festival comes every year at mid of the September and as per Bengali calendar Bhadra month. A big fair is arranged during this time and huge Santhali people are gathered here from various parts of the adjacent districts. Special type of songs and dance are being performed during this festival like Naachin, Pata, etc and such dance and songs are normally continue throughout the night.

Bhadu Festival: This is very popular festival of this district and it generally held at the mid of August and continue upto the mid of September.  This is the faith of the common people of Purulia that worshiping Bhadu Devi means childless woman will bear children. Generally folk women arrange this worship and they sing various related songs to admire Devi Bhadu.
Karam Festival: This is also very famous folk festival in Bengal especially at Purulia. This festival is generally arranged within the middle of August to September of every year. During this festival different crops with full of big dhamas are offered to the God. These dhamas’ full crops are kept for seeds for further cultivation.





Bandhana Parab: this is another remarkable festival of Purulia. Bandana Parab means worshiping festival. It celebrates during the time of autumn or specifically say in the month of October of every year. Bandana Parab is actually welcomes or worshiping of Goddess of Grains.
Tushu Festival: This is also very famous festival of Bengal. This festival is generally show the colorful lifestyle and musical ceremony of tribes. Normally this festival is held in the month of December of every year and such fair is arranges on the bank of the river. During this festival, women are generally exchange their wealth and cook eight verities of foods and lastly offer to the Tusu Goddess.
Palash Parban: This festival is comes on March of every year during the color festival Holi. The whole world knows that Holi is a famous festival of India.  Each and every corner of the country this festival of color is being celebrate every year with very pride and joy. In Purulia, it celebrates for three days and entire arrangement is made by the villagers. On the occasion of this festival various traditional dance and songs are performed by the artists of villages. Last year i.e. on 2013, this program was organized by the Edge of India Purulia Co-Operative.
Other than these eminent festivals, there are so many festivals are organized by the villagers like DurgaPuja, Kali Puja, Saraswati Puja, Rass Mela, etc.