Page 6 - Durga Puja
With more sponsors, Kolkata set to celebrate a grander Durga Puja this time
This year is seeing a rebound for puja committee after the blues of demonetisation and goods and services tax, which had hit budgets last year
 "With more sponsors, Kolkata set to celebrate a grander Durga Puja this time")
How Durga Puja can do wonders for Bengal's economy
While Puja shopping and Puja periodicals still dominate Bengalis' lives, their characteristics have changed significantly
A Durga Puja pandal that pays tribute to sex workers
Ostracised by the society, sex workers have survived for long in the underbellies. While the soil from a sex worker's backyard is considered essential for the making of Durga idols, they have been excluded from festivities for ages. Business Standard takes you to Ahiritola Yubak Brinda, a Durga Puja pandal, near Kolkata's red-light district of Sonagachhi, that is setting new paradigms by paying tribute to sex workers.
 "A Durga Puja pandal that pays tribute to sex workers")
In Durga's image
This Durga Puja perhaps we could send up a prayer for more such enlightened judgments so the law can set women free wherever they are in chains
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