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Empty streets

Cars, buses, countless yellow Ambassador taxis, rickshaws pulled by men and the only tramway in India: the streets of Calcutta are in a permanent state of emergency.

However, for Durga Puja, the largest religious festival in Bengal, they are as if they were empty – and reveal many a typographic detail.

A day in the streets of the city.

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All shutters down.

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Even the beds of newspaper, on which fruit is usually offered, will remain empty.

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