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Durga Puja: From priesthood to playing the dhaak, women leading from the front tell their stories
Rita Saha pirouettes and jumps, like a bird taking flight, while drumming up a crescendo with her mallet.
Her fingers are almost invisible as she swings her feathered dhaak on her shoulder, matching her feet to her own beats.
“Eta te moja pai, sammano pai, maayer aashirbado pai (I have a lot of fun, get respect and blessings of the goddess when I play the barrel drums),” says the 35-year-old, looking up at the clay idol of the goddess that’s awaiting a final coat of colour.
But Saha feels complete as one of the first woman drummers of Bengal who are creating a new century of women dhaakis as percussion artistes.
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