Thanthania Dey BARIR Puja

Girish Chandra Dey and other staunch devotees built a temple back in 1897. They had their first puja this year at their friends house, Manik Lal Dey’s house, after they finished constructing the Thanthania Kalibari. For 12 years they carried on with the puja while they worked hard to build an even more awesome puja […]

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Raja Nabakrishna Deb Family

The Durga Puja celebrations at Sovabazar Rajbari is centuries old. “While everybody waited for the goat to be sacrificed, it managed to escape. Surrounded by a roaring crowd, it ran up the stairs and took shelter at the feet of Maa Durga,” narrates Soumit Narayan Deb of Sovabazar Rajbari in north Kolkata.

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