Every year during Durga Puja visitors throng the Bhattacharya family’s residence in Canning, in South 24 Parganas district adjacent to Kolkata. A major attraction of this almost 450-year-old Puja at Bhattacharya house is that the burnt...
It is believed that the goddess herself cooks the meal offered to her on Ashtami, locally referred to as the “Viram Bhog”. It is said that on the night of Ashtami, goddess Kanak Durga prefers to...
