From 100 to lakhs of visitors, crores spent: How CR Park’s community pujas became Delhi’s Durga Puja destination

From door-to-door chanda to corporate sponsorships, CR Park’s Durga Puja has grown into a large-scale operation — and not everyone is happy with what that has brought.Devyani Rudra, 60, recalled her earliest memories of Durga Puja from Chittaranjan Park’s J Block: helping her mother, cutting vegetables for bhog — the traditional community meal offered to the Goddess and distributed as prasad — and joining the neighbourhood’s cultural programmes.