Mathura: It would be a homecoming experience for fifty widows from Vrindavan as they will celebrate Durga Puja festival during their week-long visit to Kolkata, commencing from Thursday.
Sulabh International, an NGO, working for the empowerment of the widows, is organising the visit.
"The widows, who belong to West Bengal, would not only watch famous Durga Puja celebrations in Kolkata but would get an opportunity to visit the area, where they were born and brought up and married," an official from the organisation told reporters today.
"It would be virtually like homecoming after decades," she said.
Around fifty widows of Vrindavan had already visited Kolkata during Durga Puja celebrations last year, she said.
"Though we came to Vrindavan to pay our obeisance to the Lord Krishna for salvation, however, there can be no substitute to home and there can be no better experience than visiting the area one is born and brought up," an 85-year-old Maanu Ghosh said.
"When we came to Vrindavan from Kolkata about two decades ago, we never had dreamt of visiting our motherland again," 80-year-old Aarati Mistry said.
95-year-old Kanak Lata Devi, who has passed her over four decades in lotus feet of Radha Rani in Vrindavan, is eager to meet the Governor and Chief Minister of West Bengal.
"We have sought an appointment from these two dignitaries for them," the NGO official said.
Metro and Tram ride would be another thrilling experience for them, she said.
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