Festival that invents its people
Every autumn, as the monsoon sighs into retreat, Bengal begins its favourite act of reinvention. For five luminous days the word Bengali stops being a birthmark or a dialect and turns into a mood, something worn like a borrowed fragrance. Durga Puja is not just a festival; it is a thesis in belonging, an annual argument that a people are not merely born but made and remade by the rhythms they choose to keep.
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