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Tilasan Zamindar House in Malda begins Durga Puja with border crossing and gunshots
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News18•17-10-2026, 11:09
Tilasan Zamindar House in Malda begins Durga Puja with border crossing and gunshots
- •The Durga Puja at the Tilasan Zamindar House in Malda marks its 226th year of celebration
- •The sacred pitcher for the puja is filled from the Punarbhaba River by crossing the border barbed wire
- •The puja is traditionally inaugurated on Saptami morning with five rounds of blank fire from a licensed gun
- •Despite three-fourths of the historic estate going to Bangladesh during partition, ancestral traditions remain unbroken
- •The rituals are conducted with BSF permission near the India-Bangladesh border, keeping local festivities alive
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The Durga Puja at the Tilasan Zamindar Estate in Malda marks its 226th year.
The puja is inaugurated on the morning of Saptami by firing five rounds of blank shots into the air from a licensed gun, following ancestral tradition with BSF permission.
Following the partition and independence, the estate shrank from 1.4 million bighas down to 300,000 bighas, with three-fourths of it going to present-day Bangladesh.
