Kolkata: Sohrai paintings and Santiniketani alpana, two vintage art forms on the verge of extinction, are making a comeback at Durga Puja pandals at Fern Pally in Ballygunge and Ahiritola Jubak ...

The iconic 80-year-old Howrah Bridge has received a colourful makeover ahead of Durga Puja, with a group of artists painting the cantilever thoroughfare with Bengal’s ‘alpana’ motifs. The bridge has ...

Durga Puja in Kolkata has never been just a religious ritual, it is a festival of art, identity, and emotion that transforms the entire city into a cultural spectacle. In 2025, the celebrations ...

Popular artist Sanjay Paul and his team of about 40 students from different art colleges used folk motifs, which are traditionally used in ‘alpana’ art to decorate floors and walls in rural Bengal, to ...

Kolkata: The city is gearing up to welcome the Bengali New Year, and The Times of India is celebrating TOI Amar Paray Barshabaran — a vibrant and culturally rooted Poila Baisakh initiative that brings ...

I must have been about five when I first realised that one didn’t always need a pencil to draw. I stood at the door of the puja room and watched my great-aunt dip her hand in a bowl of white paste.

Durga Puja is almost here, and the city is all lit up with colorful lights and fresh flowers. Among all the customs and traditions, there's one that really caught everyone's attention for its artistic ...

The final preparations are ongoing at the Central Shaheed Minar monument in Dhaka for people to pay homage to the martyrs of the 1952 movement against Pakistani rulers for Bangla as a state language.