Bengal Guv R. N. Ravi inaugurates Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Pujas 84th edition Nishan The Mark
Kolkata: West Bengal Governor R. N. Ravi on Thursday inaugurated the 84th Durga Puja of the Manicktala Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Puja Committee, opening its 2026 pandal, ‘Nishan — The Mark’, to devotees and visitors in North Kolkata.
When the Body Becomes a Temple: The Ramnami Samaj's Century-Old Rebellion Now Inspires Kolkata's Durga Puja
Denied entry into temples, they did not argue — they carried Ram on their skin instead. TWF-IBNS correspondent Souvik Ghosh traces how Chhattisgarh's Ramnami Samaj, a Dalit devotional community that began tattooing the name of Ram across their bodies in the 1890s as a quiet act of resistance against caste exclusion, has travelled from the margins of religious history to the heart of this year's Durga Puja — where their extraordinary story of faith, identity and defiance is the centrepiece in Chaltabagan, one of North Kolkata's most celebrated pandals.
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Bengal Guv R. N. Ravi inaugurates Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Pujas 84th edition Nishan The Mark
October 16, 2026
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When the Body Becomes a Temple: The Ramnami Samaj's Century-Old Rebellion Now Inspires Kolkata's Durga Puja
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