'Tis the season of Navratri! Every year, people across India unite to celebrate the enchanting and joyous festival for nine straight days. Goddess Durga is worshipped in her nine holy forms. On the ...

A new Bengali film, Dhaki, explores the fading tradition of live dhak players at Durga Puja. Seventy-year-old Tilak Dhaki ...

Durga Puja isn’t just about pandal hopping and feasting in Kolkata — it is also about family time, childhood memories and nostalgia that refuses to die. It is this emotion that many filmmakers have ...

Durga Puja has always carried a cinematic quality of its own. The visual opulence of clay idols, the soundscape of dhaak reverberating through the night, and the collective ecstasy of a city lit with ...

The Bengal Cinema Screening Committee convened to address the release of Bengali films during Durga Puja and Christmas, ensuring no clashes occur. All four Bengali films scheduled for release during ...

Durga Puja is just around the corner, and Kolkata’s Chaltabagan Sarbojanin Puja committee is creating a unique pandal on the theme ‘Aami Bangla Bolchi’ (I Speak Bengali). The pandal traces the journey ...

As the Durga Puja festival begins on Monday, the Chaltabagan Sarbojanin Durga Puja in Kolkata’s Machuabazar pays tribute to the mother tongue Bengali: “Ami Banglai Bolchi” – I am speaking in Bengali.