Ten Arms, Thousand Themes: Kolkata’s Durga Puja as Living Museum
For a few incandescent days each autumn, Kolkata stops being a city and remembers it is a story. The pavements turn into footnotes, the avenues into chorus lines, and every neighborhood—para, lane, bylane—becomes a luminous stanza in the poem of Durga Puja. Clay breathes. Bamboo whispers. The conch calls. And the Mother arrives—not only as…