Purulia trip in Square frames
Purulia trip: After the Meghalaya trip full of trek and caving, my next trip was lazying around Ajodhya hills of the Purulia district of Bengal. While Meghalaya was a crazy place, the friends, I went [Read more...]
Explore Bengal
Photographs of Bengal and related stories, as discovered by Anirban Saha
Murshidabad: Hazar duari and around.
One of the chief attractions in Murshidabad is the Hazarduari complex. I would not write about the history of the Hazarduari palace as my knowledge is particularly limited to the Wikipedia [Read more...]
Murshidabad : In search of Bauls (Part 1)
Part 1: Bauls: Spirituality over religion. I set myself out to Murshidabad, after the tiresome Friday in office, in search of the Bauls and the Fakirs. Before I write about my experience there, I [Read more...]
Gajan festival in West Bengal
Photograph #1: The street skit showing the dance of Lord Shiva. (Gajan | www.anirbansaha.com) A tale of belief: Gajan and Charak. - Anirban Saha & Sourav Halder, Krishnadebpur’ [Read more...]
Chandannagar with Country Roots
For the last few weeks, apart from my office, I am either resting at home or scribbling on my diary pages. I did not like any of the scribbles and tore the pages. I required a break. Break came to me [Read more...]
Kolkata – the two celebrations.
..I am back with a personal post again. Yesterday Arya (Chakraborty) came to my place after his tuitions, camera with him and his new prime lens. Now that he is an incredible kid, I did not want to be [Read more...]
Boshonto Utsav
Glimpses,small talks, photographs of Boshonto and fond memories, adda that can never be scripted down. বাতাস ছুটিছে বনময় রে, ফুলের না জানে পরিচয় রে। তাই বুঝি বারে বারে কুঞ্জের দ্বারে [Read more...]
Durga Puja’ 2012 photographs
"First comes knowledge, then - observation, then comes photography.", said one of the most renowned photographers in Kolkata. I started contemplating about it. "Lets know our traditions", he said [Read more...]
Mahalaya and Tarpan
For your peace, I pray to you and the Almighty (Shot at near 4:45 am, Mullick ghaat, Kolkata) Surprisingly the very few days of Durga puja when every traditional Bengali has a smile on the face, and [Read more...]