From a way of showing off family wealth to the British to standing in as an icon of the freedom movement and now with UNESCO's Cultural Heritage tag, the festival has had quite the journey.
From NRC to farmers’ protests, at least two major Durga Puja committees in West Bengal have selected contentious and controversial issues as their themes this year.
In Kolkata, BJP has paid little heed to the tradition of pandals focusing on contemporary politics but instead claimed that the footwear in a pandal is an insult to the goddess.