India GOFestivals of Kolkata
Durga Puja in Kolkata
Walk from one temporary pavilion to the next through the night, each one a commissioned installation built by artists and clubs, until the city itself reads as a single open-air exhibition.
📅 17 October 2026
Kali Puja in Bengal
On the new-moon night that the rest of India gives to Lakshmi, Bengal worships Kali: Barasat's pandals and Kolkata's old Kali temples stay lit and full until dawn.
📅 8 November 2026
Chhath Puja
Kolkata's Chhath is spread thin on purpose: a court-backed order keeps it off the city's two big lakes, so it runs instead along the Hooghly ghats and across dozens of purpose-built artificial ponds in the neighbourhoods.
📅 13 November 2026
Christmas
Walk Park Street under strung lights in the last week of December, with choirs and bands on the stage at Allen Park, the bakeries turning out cake, and the street closed to traffic in the evenings.
📅 25 December 2026
Rath Yatra
Kolkata has pulled the chariots since 1972, six kilometres down Chowringhee to the Brigade Parade Ground, where the deities then hold a week-long mela.
📅 5 July 2027
Independence Day
Kolkata's Independence Day is the state parade on Red Road beside the Maidan, with a march-past and tableaux, and the Victoria Memorial and Howrah Bridge lit in the tricolour around the 15th.
📅 15 August 2027
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