Kolkatans soak in Holi fervour with two days to go, celeb cricket and more news in pictures

(Top) Final touches are lent to a huge idol of Bal Gopal at Kumartuli ahead of Holi and (above) young women rehearse for Basanta Utsab at College Street on Saturday

People in Burrabazar play with colours around a Rolls Royce that once belonged to Rudyard Kipling and revellers smear each other with colours in the lanes of the area on Saturday

Team captain of Celebrity Cup Jisshu Sengupta attended a tea party at chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s residence in Kalighat with his teammates on Saturday

Thousands of pilgrims throng the Jalpesh Mandir near Jalpaiguri town in monsoon every year. It was dedicated to Lord Shiva by Cooch Behar king Shri Prananarayan in 1663. Bisu Singh, the father of king Maharaja Narayan, later repaired it

Writer, child-rights activist and actor Nandana Dev Sen uploaded this photograph early on Saturday with the caption: ‘Now look at this chest where you had planted The sapling of a heart In a soft green stretch of sun In the hidden mesh of this dark jungle, Impenetrable, Has grown a hungry tree’ ~Excerpt, “The Jungle Story,” #NabaneetaDevSen #worldpoetryday #internationaldayofforests #amazon #inca #incatrail #rainforest

A charitable trust, Sarodiya, organised Holi celebrations with flowers for the visually impaired students of Light House for the Blind on Saturday