Thousands hit the roads as Durga Puja begins in Bengal
Kolkata: Thousands of people decked in their best walked the streets of Kolkata shoulder to shoulder, visiting one marquee after another, as the Durga Puja festivities got off to a grand start under clear skies in West Bengal on Sunday. Leaving behind the drudgery of daily existence amid problems of price spirals, corruption in public life and other problems, young and the old joined in the gay abandon as Kolkata looked its finest under lakhs of kilowats of bright lights, twinklers and grand marques.
Image: A priest worships goddess Durga on the first day of the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, on Sunday, October 2, 2011.
Text: IANS
Images: PIT/AP/AFP
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