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(dated: 10/10/2009)
I like JUPC though I had visited many clubs and organizations because of the fact that there is no quarrel among the students for the chair of responsibilities.
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(dated: 08/10/2009)
For long long years, JUPC have been generating interest and enthusiasm not only among the students but also others. Their VIBRANT enthusiasm is honest and dedicated.
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I would like to see more of JUPC photos, they have the PASSION.
Gajan by Avijit Roy (2nd Place)
GAJAN
By AVIJIT ROY
In the name itself, there is a meaning, Ga means gram-village and jan –janagan-people. It is the festival of the village people with folk culture. In the mid of March-April, the devotees (sannyasis) worn in gerua (saffron) clothes, thread garland and a bent cane stick in hand, beg from door to door. After a day’s fasting they in the evening take food with whatever they collect. It continues for a month. At the end of the month to mark the closing of the festival, there is a fair (mela). In that mela the sannyasis display various risky games like, banti-jump, angling-hook swinging and play with skull etc.etc. At this they sacrifice their evils to the Lord Shiva, god of sacrifice, worn in tiger-hide who has left the worldly assests and saves the gods by swallowing poison. The sannyasis perform those games even they are life-killing. Still it is a Milan-mela (fair of unity). It is very inhuman and so it is being abated gradually. In 1956-57 the Government once tried to ban it but on the encouragement of people it is still going on in somehow moderated form .
