Updated On: 20 October, 2012 03:40 AM IST | | Soma Das
For 12 years, Mumbai based-photographer Chirodeep Chaudhuri has chronicled Durga Puja celebrations in his hometown, Amadpur in West Bengal. This series of black-and-white images finds itself in his latest book, A Village In Bengal. Doing away with captions, every frame captures the silence and simplicity of the fading rural Zamindar Bari celebrations
Frenzied celebrations and vibrancy around Durga Puja makes it one of the more photogenic festivals. But photographer Chirodeep Chaudhuri decided to give the urbane celebrations a miss and instead, opted to document the Durga Pujas in his hometown, Amadpur, in West Bengal.
