This year we went out of town for Durga Puja, but I was here for the Massart preview event and visited all but one of the 24 preview pandals, and a few others along the way. It turned out to be an excellent collection of pandals, with a lot of variety. The pandals were not quite done, but what they lacked in completeness was made up for by better accessibility, and sometimes a person to explain the theme and artistic elements.

A fourth year of immersion in Durga Puja. I didn't have as much time as in previous years, but I still managed to see around 70 pandals.

My third year of Durga Puja immersion.

In an incredible second year of frenetic pandal hopping I visited 154 pandals, some of them several times, many of them stunning. The volume of art that gets painstakingly created (and then casually destroyed) every year for Durga Puja is just astounding.

The year in which I became a serious pandal hopper after years of mostly ignoring Durga Puja. I visited 88 different pandals in every corner of Kolkata. Durga Puja seems to be one of those things that gets better the more you do it.