When you Google ‘oldest Durga Puja in West Bengal’, you’ll get the Barisha Roy Choudhurys’ 1610 puja. The Maharajas regularly went hunting for big game in these parts; so a tiger as Durga’s ‘vaahan’ in Nara Narayan’s dream is not unusual. But times have changed and the ‘human sacrifice’ is only symbolic now — thank Durga for that! There are …
