As Dashami sets in, members of Harakutir Ray Banerjee Bari in Pathuria Ghat Street perform the ‘dhunuchi’ dance in reverence of the goddess
Soumyajit DeyPeople queued up at the pandals on Navami night for a last round of pandal hopping before Dashami’s curtain call for Durga Puja 2024. In pictures, Dum Dum Park Bharat Chakra pandal portrays the theme ‘Jamdani’ by designer Aditi Chakrabarty
Amit DattaEnjoying a quick break, pandal hoppers relish Kolkata’s iconic phuchka at a stall in Dum Dum Park
Amit DattaDurga idols were immersed at the Baje Kadamtala Ghat in north Kolkata on Saturday as part of Dashami rituals, however, the structures were immediately removed by workers of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC)
Suvendu Das(L-R) Nick Low, ex-deputy high commissioner of UK to Kolkata; Suranjan Som, president Bengal Heritage Foundation (BHF); Vikram Doraiswami, high commissioner of India to UK; Deepak Chowdhury, minister coordination HCI; Kaustav Banerjee of ICICI and Sourav Niyogi, trustee of BHF at the launch of the Bengal Heritage Foundation’s Durga Puja magazine ‘Parboni’, at the London Sharad Utsav in Ealing, London
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