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Durga Puja

Death of teenage girl: Govt appoints special PP

In a significant development in the mysterious death of an 18-year-old school girl found charred inside a Durga Puja pandal on the day of Lakshmi Puja at Ramkrishnapara, the state government has appointed Subedi Sanyal as the special public prosecutor for the case.

Missing youth’s body found after 13 days

A decomposed body of a youth, who'd mysteriously disappeared in the evening of Sashthi of Durga Puja on 6 October from near a Puja pandal was unearthed this afternoon in Bishnupur.

Photographic representation of Durga in a fashion model

On 8 October this year, Anupam Halder, through his camera lens, unveiled his innovative concept of visualising the deity Durga through a young fashion model, Sathi Sarkar, in a photography exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata. The model, who embodies goddess Durga with her sensuality and earthiness, gets adored by the city’s hoi polloi. 

Goddess Durga and an artist called Rintu Das

During the pandemic, when a question mark hung over whether or not Durga Puja would be celebrated at all, one man was at the receiving end of at least a hundred distressed phone calls. His name is Rintu Das, the artist who subsequently catapulted to fame with his stunning depiction of Goddess Durga as a migrant labourer, walking back to her home in heaven with her children, Ganesh, Kartik, Lakshmi and Saraswati in tow...and in tatters.