Green Puja 2025: Kumartuli Park Sarbojanin Durgotsab Committee won the zonal award using leaves as a metaphor
Themes ranged from fireflies to freedom fighters to ocean pollution to freedom fighters of our country
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ENVIRONMENT
Green Puja 2025: Tala Prattoy was the zonal topper with its fascinating and insightful story of the past, present and future of agriculture
- by Srijani Ghosh
- November 13, 2025
Pujas ranged across a wide variety of themes from radioactivity to Ramkinkar Baij, but many lacked conceptual clarity
ENVIRONMENT
Green Puja 2025: Behala Buroshibtala Janakalyan Sangha won in this zone for a moving display of the destruction of nature by man
- by Adrija Dhar
- November 12, 2025
This relatively small, sincere Puja delved into the ongoing climate crisis and earlier Indian history of protests to save environment
ENVIRONMENT
Green Puja 2025: A Dum Dum pandal wins on the wings of birds from Bengal
- by Somdeb Chakrabarty
- November 11, 2025
The themes in this Kolkata zone depict nature and environment through archaeology, mental health, a dream village and calls of the birds
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Kolkata Diwali: Your Honour, the model of green fireworks has failed, please review your decision: physicians and activists urged judiciary
- by Jayanta Basu
- October 24, 2025
During Diwali incessant bursting of fireworks pushed air pollution levels to ‘severe’ category in city despite weather playing no role
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Kolkata Diwali: Fireworks violations rule roads as administration keeps busy announcing rules
- by Jayanta Basu
- October 20, 2025
State and union government agencies tried to shift responsibility to one another ; government supported firework markets are under scanner
ENVIRONMENT
Green Puja 2025: In Tala Prattoy, winner of green puja award, Durga sought to kill the demon of toxic chemical ridden agriculture instead of Mahisasura
- by Joyjeet Das
- October 14, 2025
Serader Sera Nirmal Pujo Puroskar 2025 honours Bhabatosh Sutar’s excellent execution of a concept that encompasses the ‘seed’ as philosophy and takes viewers through a creative ride through our food chain
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Highland flood shelters for wild animals planned in north Bengal forest areas
- by Jayanta Basu
- October 13, 2025
State forest department taking the step emulating Assam’s Kaziranga park model post recent deluge
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Green puja 2025: tea themed puja of Alipore Sarbojanin tops in south Kolkata
- by Satabdi Nandi
- September 27, 2025
Range of green themes from sustainable development goal to rural Bengal to losing of environment centric livelihoods dot the pujas
ENVIRONMENT
India at 79
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India at 79: Policy paradoxes and political priorities mostly steered urban planning, environment ignored
- by Anjal Prakash
- September 8, 2025
Decade old Smart City mission has been technology and infrastructure driven, failed to check burgeoning urban pollution in most of the 'smart cities'