A new Bengali film, Dhaki, explores the fading tradition of live dhak players at Durga Puja. Seventy-year-old Tilak Dhaki ...

DHAKA: Though Bangladesh's govt has decided to take extra security measures ahead of Durga Puja, there is still doubt whether the Bengali-speaking Hindu community will be able to celebrate its biggest ...

Prasenjit Nath and Avijit Sarkar are part of the Suffolk Bengali Society which organised Ipswich's first Durga Puja festival A town's Bengali community has held a major festival for the first time. A ...

In 1610, when Islam Khan, the Mughal subahdar of Bengal, first arrived in Dhaka, legend has it that he witnessed Durga Puja on the banks of the Buriganga. The sound of the dhaks (drums) filled the air ...