Rangoli Journal

Most offices in Kolkata, Bengaluru and Hyderabad now do something in the week before Puja — a lunch, a small pandal in the lobby,...

Woven work and embroidered work are priced similarly and are completely different propositions. A woven Banarasi's pattern is structural — it is the cloth....

Everything from here is arithmetic. Shashthi is 16 October and Mahalaya is 10 October. Working backwards from those two dates gives you every deadline...

The same saree, draped two ways, is two outfits. Most people only know one drape and default to it for six days, which is...

Walk a Kolkata pandal today and you will see as much Ikkat and Bandhani as Tant. Both came from a long way away, and...

Most festive shopping advice assumes one person buying one outfit. A family of four across six days is twenty-four outfit-days, and it is a...

Navratri and Durga Puja are the same nine nights of the same goddess, and the clothes have almost nothing in common. People who move...

Durga Puja outside Bengal is not a smaller version of the Kolkata festival. It is a different occasion with different clothes, and treating it...