WHY I MISS KOLKATA during Durga Puja is something I can never get my head around. The pujas don’t just epitomise a festival, they are more. It’s a feeling of camaraderie, of unmitigated joy, and an underlying exuberance mired in bonhomie and festivity. Growing up in Kolkata, I realised that the pujas were always symbolic of something much deeper than just the protima or the pandal.