Durga Puja is never complete without the frenzied beats of the ‘dhak’. Many ‘dhakis’ come from villages to Sealdah station and solicit puja committee members or those of family pujas by playing their best beats on Sasthi morning
Suvendu DasSunrit Banik, a Class IX student of Aditya Birla Vani Bharati School in Hooghly’s Rishra, has made a Durga idol with paper and put it on a shelf. The teenager has shown promise in art through various works from a young age
My KolkataDiners have been making a beeline for various restaurants at Park Street under the watchful eyes of the goddess looking down upon from a huge lighted installation
Suvendu Das and Arnab DuttaActress Mandakini inaugurated a photography exhibition on Durga images by artist Anupam Haldar at Academy of Fine Arts on Tuesday evening. Women in different spheres of life have been portrayed as Durga
My KolkataFrom the eager pandal-hoppers at Kumartuli Park in the north to the milling crowds at Maddox Square down south, people were out in droves on Panchami night on Tuesday
AG and Soumyajit DeyA 50-foot-tall Durga idol at the entrance of the Baruipur Saptapalli Durga Puja pandal on the southern fringes of the city
Pintu Mondal