About Pujo Parikrama

Pujo Parikrama is a free, independent guide to Durga Puja: what it means, how each day's rituals are performed, how to celebrate at home, and a live Kolkata guide to 125 pandals. It has 72 in-depth articles today and grows every season.

What you'll find here

• The Durga Puja guide: meaning, history, the goddess, rituals day by day, mantras, recipes, Navratri and the festivals around it.
• The Kolkata 2026 guide: every listed pandal with the best time to visit, metro, food and parking.
• The app: live check-ins and crowd levels, route planning, a step counter, Pujo Radio and moments shared by visitors.

How we write and check

Articles are researched from published sources, which each article lists at the end, and drafted with the help of AI writing tools. They are then checked against those sources before publishing. Durga Puja is a living tradition, and practice differs between families, regions and panjikas (almanacs), so we say where traditions differ instead of presenting one way as the only one. We don't give exact muhurta timings; please confirm those with your purohit or local panjika.

Kolkata facts (pandal locations, metro, food, parking) come from a curated dataset, checked against OpenStreetMap. Crowd levels and best times are estimates from our crowd model, not live counts, except where the app shows live check-ins.

Independent

Pujo Parikrama is not affiliated with any puja committee, temple, government body or brand. Restaurant offers shown in the app are verified by a call to the owner before they appear. Pages may show advertising, which pays for running the guide. Ads are never mixed into the text of an article.

Corrections

Spotted a mistake, or does your family do it differently? Write to workdesk94@gmail.com and we'll look at it quickly. Every article shows when it was last updated.