Is it really possible to go back to the womb? Well practically it is not but virtually it is.
Durga Pujo, it meant something else in the beginning, it is after coming to Kolkata and staying here that it all changed. Kolkata, a partially busy metropolitan and a considerably crowded place turned out to be a completely different place altogether during the Durga Pujo. It was as if lakhs of people have come out of the womb of mother Kolkata and there is no one to control the birth rate. Fully grown adults and kids and what not took birth during those five or six days.
One will get the idea of the population boom in Kolkata only during the Durga Pujo, and Kolkata becomes the Mother Mary who gets blessed with so many children every year during the Durga Pujo. Kolkata opens the gates of the womb and the children don't need the help of the doctors to be pulled out of the sacred place.
When you move out on the roads you suddenly realise that you have been blessed with so many brothers and sisters that you can only see their heads on the roads, sometimes it becomes tough for you to walk around. Roads at those times are devoid of vehicles, only human engines emit carbon dioxide on all five days.
This festival brings rather gives life to the metropolitan and gives an opportunity to Kolkata to become a Mother once again and give birth to so many people who care for the place, who turn out to love this place more than their work.
The sad part is, five days pass without giving any application to Mother Kolkata and by the time Mother realises it all the children get back to the womb, as in they vanish. The streets become comparatively empty and you fail to see only heads. All you can see is thousands of vehicles which have only one thing to give and that is pollution. You start seeing all those faces again who are enchained to the same enslaving jobs, they start following their routine and forget about Mother Kolkata. Mother becomes a mere place to stay again, a place which gives them food and shelter and a means to work.
