Ancestral house of Rash Behari Ghosh - Torkona Village Burdwan Not many people have possibly heard of Torkona village in Khandaghosh, East Burdwan district. Although a large and prosperous village, no community puja (Barowari Puja) is held in the village. Villagers have been continuing the
When a family moves from the Dutch colonial town of Chinsurah on the banks of the Hooghly to a prosperous rural belt of Narail in present day Bangladesh, then their worshipping Maa Durga also changes geographical boundaries. One such grand puja that again shifted back
The zamindari of Burdwan was one of the largest and richest feudal estates in the Bengal province that flourished from about 1657 to 1955. The erstwhile rulers of Burdwan have been hosting Durga Puja at their family temple which is also the abode of their