A River Runs Through It

• Contemplative images made during morning walks along the Hooghly in Kolkata. Photographs and text by Bandeep Singh

  Like many great cities of the world, Kolkata also flourished on the banks of a river. The Hooghly, a distributary of Ganga, flows about 260 kilometres south through Kolkata before draining into the Bay of Bengal. Image: Riverside parking lot.
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  Image: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
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  Image: Birthing a goddess
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  Image: The stand-up saloon
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  Image: The diver among the amateurs
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  Image: Early morning manoeuvres at one of the many akharas
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  Image: Riverside parking lot
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  Image: Finding the solitude within
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  Image: Customary beginnings and a travelling Ganesha