Bamboo, Not Bunting: On Independence Day, Ashutosh Dey Lane Tarun Sangha Opens Its 81st Year With "Binirman"
Every fifteenth of August, Kolkata's lanes fill up with the same three colours — saffron, white and green, strung across balconies and...
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A Chariot Rolls, a Bamboo Goes Up: How Baranagar's Bandhudal Sporting Club Chose Rath Yatra to Launch Its 65th Year
Most khuti pujas in Kolkata wait for an astrologically convenient date somewhere in the monsoon calendar, a Tuesday or a Thursday that a f...
Chol Jabo Toke Niye: Khidirpur Pally Saradiya's 85th Year Begins Where Asia's First Electric Tram Once Ran
On the morning of 27th March 1902, Asia's first electric tram pulled out of Esplanade and rattled its way down to Kidderpore, and a sma...
Khadinan Naboday Sangha Khuti Puja 2026: Bagnan's PWD Godown Enters Its 10th Year With "Dashom Raktakkhar"
"Rokte bhijeche mati, ashrute bhijeche ghar, gorje uthuk moder 'Doshom Roktakkhor'" — soil soaked in blood, a home soake...
Dehatattwa to Debitattwa: Under Shibpur's Oldest Banyan, Nabarun Sangha's 97th Year Quietly Begins
There is a banyan tree on Sarat Chatterjee Road in Shibpur that has almost certainly seen more khuti pujas than most of the people standin...
"অতীতের আঙিনায় আগমনী": Madhusudan Das Lane O Bye Lane Steps Into Its 38th Year on Independence Day
A courtyard, in Bengali, is called an aangina — that in-between space that belongs neither fully to the house nor fully to the street, wher...
Banner Up, Bamboo In: Kestopur's Masterda Smriti Sangha Opens Its 74th Year With Khuti Puja
Say the name "Masterda" to anyone above the age of fifty in Kestopur, and you won't get a blank look. You'll get a nod, ...
"মায়ের আগমনী": Acharya Prafulla Pally Steps Into Its 77th Year With Khuti Puja and a Banner Built on Two Word
Two words are doing all the work on Acharya Prafulla Pally's new banner this year, and they're sitting inside quotation marks for a...
Attapara Unnayan Samity's Khuti Puja Is Done: Photos and Highlights from the 61st Year Ceremony
The bamboo pole that was only a promise on a banner a few days ago is now standing in the ground in Attapara, wrapped tip to base in marig...
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