Kolkata, Sept. 28 -- Residents of West Bengal embraced the onset of Durga Puja with vibrant enthusiasm the onset of Durga Puja with vibrant enthusiasm on Sunday, as the festival's first day, Shashthi, heralded the arrival of the Goddess in her myriad forms.
The city of Kolkata, is adorned with dazzling lights and resplendent pandals, reverberated with the rhythmic beats of dhaak and the fragrant waft of incense. Thousands of nattily dressed men, women and children, converged on the streets of the metropolis making rounds of different marquees, and gorging on sumptuous food offered by roadside vendors.
In Kolkata, there are around 2,700 community pujas and 5,000 family pujas. As in earlier years, the organisers have come up with innovative...