Witness Fire, Faith & Fierce Rituals At Bengal’s Charak Puja Festival
Ancient rituals, fierce devotion, and acts of penance unfold in a powerful display of faith in Bengal's Charak Puja festival

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Ancient rituals, fierce devotion, and acts of penance unfold in a powerful display of faith in Bengal's Charak Puja festival
Bengal's terracotta mosques are often overlooked by heritage lovers and rarely discussed, unlike their temple counterparts. To see some of these existing mosques is to walk through centuries past
A wealth of relics lie scattered in an often forgotten, long overlooked district of West Bengal. Call it Purulia's rediscovery, if you may
In an effort to revive the fading art, a group of patuas (painter singers) has taken patachitra creation to an art form in Naya village, West Midnapore
With the telegraph-based communication system becoming history, the Semaphore towers are also facing the perils of time
Terracotta temples of Maluti - a heritage worth preserving that was on the verge of vanishing