Grand Idols And Long Holiday, How Kolkata Celebrated Durga Puja, And After | Read
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday flagged off what she said is Kolkata's answer to the famed Carnival at Rio. Two days after Durga Puja officially ended, 39 grand idols that won awards instituted by the government, were paraded on the on the arterial Red Road in the city before immersion. The chief minister stayed for the nearly three hour spectacle, as did hundreds of people.
