Remembering a 1960 Railway Colony screening, Padma Shri Ajoy Kumar Dutta recalls Guwahati's 1960s Durga Puja as a community-centered festival marked by neighbourhood rituals, jatra troupes and visarjan processions. He warns that rising pandal expenditures and spectacle risk eclipsing devotion, compassion and traditional practices like Nabapatrika, urging puja committees to balance grandeur with charity and communal bonds.
