Gandhiji’s death anniversary, Chinese New Year, Schools reopen…
From wrestling tournament to Saraswati puja prep, a wide-angle look at the week that was
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My Kolkata Web Desk |
Published 05.02.22, 07:28 PM
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MARTYRS’ DAY: Wrestlers participate in an open-air competition in Burrabazar Lohapatty on Sunday, January 30, to observe the 74th death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The Traditional Wrestling Association of Bengal collaborated with an NGO called Sankalpa Seva Foundation to organise the event. Around 80 participants took part in the tournament. Gandhi gave great importance to physical fitness and often walked 18km a day, enough over 35 years to circle the earth twice
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VIGILANT: A Kolkata Traffic Police officer checks the documents of a mini bus at Esplanade on Monday, January 31. The city stood witness to a horrific accident just a day before at the Dorina crossing. A mini bus, which was ferrying 40 people, fell flat on its side. At least 27 people were injured. The injured, eight of them minors, were taken to SSKM Hospital in south-central Kolkata. Later, it was found that the vehicle had been plying without valid documents for more than three years and had 203 citation cases against it
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COVID SHIELD: A classroom being sanitised at Jodhpur Park Boys School in south Kolkata on Tuesday, February 1. Schools in Bengal reopened on February 3 for students from classes VIII to XII. Students from classes V to VII will attend classes in open-air facilities from February 7 as part of the “Paray Sikshalay” initiative
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YEAR OF THE TIGER: Residents of Tiretti Bazar in central Kolkata offer lettuce to the lion as part of the Chinese New Year celebrations on Tuesday, February 1. According to Chinese legend, hungry lions come down from the mountains or rise from the sea at the beginning of spring. The New Year celebrations involve assuaging the lions with lettuce. Kolkata has a vibrant Chinese-Indian community that inhabits Tiretti Bazar and Tangra
Amit Datta/My Kolkata
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SNOWY AFFAIR: Actor-turned-MP Mimi Chakraborty enjoys some vacay time in Himachal Pradesh. She uploaded this photograph on her Instagram handle on Thursday, February 3, with the caption: “To memories 🥂”
From Mimi Chakraborty's Instagram handle, @mimichakraborty
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SMILES GALORE: Actor Susmita Chatterjee (From left), Dev, director Pathikrit Basu, actor Ishaa Saha and Prosenjit Chatterjee pose for a photograph at the mahurat of ‘Kacher Manush’ on Wednesday, February 2
From Dev's Instagram handle, @imdevadhikari
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STAY SAFE: A guardian kisses her ward goodbye before she enters the campus on the reopening day at Pratt Memorial School on Wednesday, February 3
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CHALK ART: A student draws a traditional ‘alpona’ at Sanskrit College on Friday, February 4, a day before Saraswati Puja. Colleges and universities reopened in Bengal on February 3
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WEATHER TEST: Devotees carry a Saraswati idol wrapped in protective plastic at Kumartuli on Friday, February 4. Kolkata and surrounding districts received spells of shower on Friday caused by a western disturbance. Till 8.30pm, the Met office recorded around 30mm of rain in Alipore
