awaited event bengali durga puja festival months kallol celebrating festival weekend october garden state cultural association concurrent celebration concurrent celebration pros cons positive side helps divide audience impossible manage single venue negative aspect loved attend attend completely denied opportunity joint celebration dates helping organizers depending performers invited kolkata mumbai organizers crowd management major issue frequent interruptions threats fire dept inviting famous artists perform puja double edged sword popular star performers pull crowd pays enormous expense hand people accommodated spaces organizers typically durga puja organizers adopted policies control crowd bring predictability number potential attendees kallol year accepting early registrations durga puja festivals reach target number registrants allowed drop-ins proposal formally announced kallol picnic details mailed members late august year kallol inviting famous singer mumbai babul supriyo perform sunday expect huge turn guest artists announced local performers miss babul supriyo register early payment contribution kallol offering staggered contribution rate encourage early registration told process enforced quite strictly professionally nice fair excessive formality takes attending durga puja festival sounds attending conference nabc formal event follow strict rules attendance dangling ugly badges beautiful expensive attire insult fashion conscious attendees wear wrist bands indelible stamps make past gate keepers commit months ahead puja you'd attend making spontaneous decision guess sacrifice freedom manage festivities 