A poster restricting celebrations with colours at an iconic artisan fair in Shantiniketan, the abode of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore about 180 km from Kolkata, has sparked a political ...

Kolkata: In Bengal, art is beautifully handcrafted Durga idols, painstakingly hand-pressed mishti, and even a football sliding into the goalpost. Art is life. And to celebrate it, the state ...

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