Durga Puja 2025: Kolkata’s pandals brim with creativity, faith, and love stories

Durga Puja 2025: Kolkata’s pandals brim with creativity, faith, and love stories

Dakshindari Youth Durga Puja in South Dum Dum — dedicated to acid attack survivors Kolkata’s streets and the pursuit of love during Durga Puja are cut from the same cloth, a fabric of chance and inevitability. Every wrong turn might open like a trapdoor — into an ornate, never-seen-before pandal, or into the orbit of … Read more

Kolkata’s iconic Peter Cat is on a list of the 150 Most Legendary Restaurants in the World. Here’s what to order

Kolkata’s iconic Peter Cat is on a list of the 150 Most Legendary Restaurants in the World. Here’s what to order

The familiar and comforting interiors at Peter Cat Over the weekend, Siddharth Kothari woke up to a message that made him smile. Iconic Peter Cat, one of the restaurants owned by his family, made it to a list of the 150 Most Legendary Restaurants in the World. The establishment, which opened its doors in Calcutta … Read more