ছবি Gallery

Five days, kept

স্মৃতির অ্যালবাম

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গত বছরের পুজো

Last year on this ground

Forty-four photographs from the 2025 Puja, taken by people who were standing in the queue themselves.

আগের বছরগুলি

Earlier years

The pandal, the idol and the crowd, from the years before that.

প্রাঙ্গণ

The campus itself

The Main Building, standing under these rain trees since the 1910s.

চিত্রে দুর্গা

How Bengal pictured her

Manuscript folios, Company school watercolours and Nandalal Bose, for a festival that was always an art form first.

ছবি চলমান Moving picture

Two minutes of last year

গত বছরের কিছু মুহূর্ত

Shot on phones by whoever had a free hand, and kept with the sound they were recorded with. Turn it up. The dhak on the last two was still going when the camera stopped.

সিঁদুর খেলাSindoor KhelaDashami morning, before she leaves. Married women smear her with vermilion and then each other.

ধুনুচিDhunuchi, and the smokeCoconut husk and camphor in a clay censer, carried into the middle of a crowd that does not move out of the way.

ধুনুচি নাচThe dance itselfBarefoot on the carpet, one censer in each hand, keeping time with the dhak.

সাংস্কৃতিক সন্ধ্যাThe cultural eveningThe band on the stage under the pandal, with the goddess watching from behind them.

সন্ধ্যার মণ্ডপAn evening on the groundThe hour when the pandal fills and nobody is watching anything in particular.

বিসর্জনBisarjan, leaving the campusThe procession sets off down the avenue. This is the part nobody films well, because nobody is standing still.

পথে ঢাকOn the road, with the dhakOut of the gate and onto the public road, where the campus stops and Bengaluru starts.