Re: [nukkad] Heard of Biswakarma puja?

["Harshal Chhaya" <>]

Tirumurti Vasudevan wrote:
> it is BMS's answer to Mayday.
> having resurrected it, they have been promoting that for quite sometime.

What is BMS?

Also I don't understand how this is a foil to Mayday.


Maloy wrote:
> I don't know if it is celebrated outside the eastern and north-eastern 
>states. It is a
> regular in West Bengal.

Another list member wrote:
> bishwakarma pooja is celebrated....how widely i dont know but in parts of 
>central
> and northen india.... industrial units are closed.....and the pooja is 
>celebrated with
> gusto and ethusiasm

So it does seem to be celebrated quite widely in the north and in the
east. The folks in the west and the south seem to be oblivious to
this.

Maloy also wrote:
> The main event on that day is kite-flying. Mostly celebrated at workshops and
> garages and the street corner rickshaw stands - where they worship the 
>workmen's
> tools.

Interesting info. The celebrations sound like a combination of the way
Sankrant (kite flying) and Dashera (tool puja) are celebrated in
Gujarat.

> We used to have great fanfare around this event in engineering college -
> (Jadavpur University) - with the tacit logic that engineers are more devoted
> towards Vishwakarma than Saraswati.

Makes perfect sense. (-8

> BTW, note that there is really no sharp "V" in Bengali or the eastern 
>languages  -
> so it is pronounced as "B"iswakarma.

I know. I included "Vishwakarma" in my original email because that's
how he is known outside the Eastern bloc.

BTW, are there two twin brothers in Hindu mythology who are also
considered architects? I can't think of their names right now and my
google-fu is weak today.

- Harshal


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