To generalise the festival of colours as Holi amounts to missing the forest for the trees

By Garga Chatterjee Last week, in Bengal, there was a riot of colours. The naive ones who ventured out in normal clothes came back home with their attire looking much more interesting. There was a lot of drinking and merry-making on the big day of the …

By Garga Chatterjee Last week, in Bengal, there was a riot of colours. The naive ones who ventured out in normal clothes came back home with their attire looking much more interesting. There was a lot of drinking and merry-making on the big day of the colour festival. Except that it was Dol-Jatra or Boshonto-Utshob

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