আজও ঢেঁকিতেই ভাঙা হয় ধান, হাওড়ার রায়পাড়াতে শোনা যায় চাল কোটার গান

পৌষ পার্বণ উৎসবের সময় চাল ভাঙাতে একত্রিত হন পাঁচলার রায়পাড়ার বাসিন্দা ৷ তিন টাকায় ঢেঁকি ভাড়া নিয়ে চাল ভাঙান গ্রামবাসীরা ৷

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00:00Poush Sankranti is the festival of Pithe Poli.

00:13The main ingredient of Pithe Poli is rice flour.

00:16In the village of Bangla, there is a new way of breaking rice in Dheki.

00:21But in today's busy life, only rice and neem leaves are used.

00:26However, the family of Soumen Rai, who lives in the back block of Haura, has kept this tradition alive.

00:32There, the sound of Dheki is still heard during the Makar Sankranti.

00:37All the houses on that side are made of Pithe Poli rice flour, in the Dheki of Soumen Rai's house.

00:44I have been coming to Dheki since childhood.

00:46We have been making rice flour here since childhood.

00:50Even now, we have a place here.

00:56People around us want to live here, but there is a lack of space.

01:00When I was young, we had to live there.

01:04Then, due to lack of space, we came here.

01:07At that time, we had very little money.

01:11We had to go to the market.

01:14Now, those who have time come here.

01:19Do you use this Dheki?

01:22Yes, we use it.

01:28Soumen Rai has been seeing this Dheki since childhood.

01:31But for the whole year, there is no use of this Dheki.

01:34The wife of the house, Ankita Rai, came to her husband's house after marriage and saw the Dheki for the first time.

01:41She learned to break rice in Dheki from her father-in-law.

01:46When I was young, I was a village girl.

01:48I didn't see Dheki there.

01:50But I saw Dheki in my father-in-law's house.

01:52I learned from my father-in-law.

01:56Now, people around me come to make Dheki.

01:59In the last six years, I have made my own rice flour.

02:07Dheki and Poush Parbon are not only a festival for the Bengalis.

02:11But it is also a precious symbol of the life of rural Bengalis, their passion and culture.

02:18But like Panchalar Rai Parar, it is still present in some parts of Bengal.

02:23There is a tradition of breaking rice in Dheki.

02:26And like this, the culture of Bengalis is spread all over the districts.

02:32ETV Bharat, Howrah