Rangoli Journal

The bonedi bari Pujas — the household Pujas of North Kolkata's old families, some of them running for two hundred years — are the...

Shashthi is on the 16th. Nobody in Kolkata is waiting for it.By the middle of this week the big pandals in the south of...

It is Mahalaya. If you are Bengali, you have probably been awake since four.Devi Paksha begins today and the countdown is now in single...

Tomorrow, before sunrise, most of Bengal will have the radio on. Mahalaya falls on 10 October 2026, and Birendra Krishna Bhadra's Mahishasuramardini — recorded...

Mahalaya falls on 10 October and Shashthi on the 16th. Everything below assumes you are reading this on the 7th.Still possible Buying ready-to-wear. A...

Most Puja shopping goes wrong by buying six similar things at a similar price. The days are not similar, so the wardrobe should not...

The rule with a serious woven saree is simple and almost universally ignored: the saree is the jewellery. A Katan Banarasi with real zari...

Red and white is the Puja palette and there is no arguing with it. The problem is that the classic white saree with a...