Tag: Travel

• Kolkata Durga Puja: Reminiscing the grandeur

  

  Being from Eastern India, Durga Puja was not something new for me. The music, the pandals, the joy, the excitement; I had already seen everything. I was vacillating between an urge to go to my hometown during puja and the curiosity to stay back and experience the famed “Kolkata Durga Pujo” (as Bengalis say it).…

  Sangram Keshari Rout

  December 16, 2014

  Festival, India, Others, West Bengal

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• Photostory: Bokar Monastery near Darjeeling

  

  Bokar Ngedon Chokhor Ling Monastery is a monastic centre where hundreds of Buddhist monks are engaged in studying, practicing and promulgating the teachings of Lord Buddha. It is situated in a small town called Mirik near Darjeeling in West Bengal. It is an extremely beautiful and colourful monastery. Round the year, tourists flock to the Mirik…

  Sangram Keshari Rout

  November 9, 2014

  India, Monastery, West Bengal

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