Mesmerizing

Bharat Chakra, Tanmantra Themed Durga Pandal at Dum Dum Park, WB

🌧 Kolkata’s Midnight Deluge: A City Drenched in Irony

300 mm of rain in 4 hours. Pandals submerged. Lives lost. Kolkata, once home to Asia’s first underground sewerage system (1860–75), now gasps under water.

Netaji Nagar, a man dies in electrified floodwater. A dog leaps in—dies saving others. No headlines. No outrage.
It revealed a city caught between heritage and hazard.

Durga Puja, symbol of triumph over evil, now begins with mourning. The IMD warns of more rain till Sept 26. Flights cancelled, metros halted, and the Hooghly backflowing into the city.

This isn’t just weather. It’s a wake-up call.