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Kolkata holidays

August 2018

  • Women dance during the procession, which is part of the immersion ritual as the Goddess makes her way from the temporary structures that are erected all over the city, to the river after the “Indoor Khela”. In this ritual, married women adorn the Goddess with vermillion and then smear the forehead and cheeks of other married women as part of the festivities.

    Bengal’s Durga puja: a Hindu festival in full flow – in pictures

    For 10 days every autumn, 10 million worshippers take part in the West Bengal festival. A new photography exhibition, part of London’s Totally Thames celebration, gives an insight into the processions and idols

February 2017

  • Drinks ; Man holding tea in clay pot Kulhad ; Park street ; Calcutta now Kolkata ; West Bengal ; IndiaBMAW44 Drinks ; Man holding tea in clay pot Kulhad ; Park street ; Calcutta now Kolkata ; West Bengal ; India

    The foodie traveller
    The best street tea in India: Kolkata’s chai

    Kolkata is the tea capital of India and the stalls on Elgin Road sell the finest brews in the city: sugary, spicy chai in sustainable clay cups

January 2017

  • Bright spun things … Malik Ghat wholesale flower market, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Why I love …
    'It's soulful … and the friendliest city in India': Fiona Caulfield's Kolkata

    ‘Strangers will invite you for a chai just to talk and exchange ideas.’ The guidebook writer says the West Bengal capital is very different from its City of Joy image

May 2016

  • A pani uri stall in Kolkata, India

    The foodie traveller
    The best mutton chop in Kolkata

    This street food favourite is so popular it can be found at vendors across the Kolkata but Harneet Baweja, founder of Gunpowder in east London, has his favourite spots

November 2015

  • Indian Railways Kitchen coach

    The foodie traveller
    The end of the line for India’s iconic railway buffet car

    India’s much-loved pantry car, introduced by the British almost a century ago, is being phased out by Indian Railways and replaced with ‘e-catering’ and takeaways

August 2015

  • Rosogolla

    The foodie traveller
    The foodie traveller ... visits Kolkata’s last Jewish bakery

    The Nahoum and Sons bakery is one of the last vestige’s of Kolkata’s Jewish heritage – but it still attracts the odd very important patron

July 2015

  • Amit Chaudhuri

    Calcutta's architecture is unique. Its destruction is a disaster for the city

    Amit Chaudhuri
    Author and critic Amit Chaudhuri is spearheading a campaign to preserve the Bengali houses of his birthplace. He explains why reconnecting with the city’s cosmopolitan architectural heritage is crucial to Calcutta’s future

April 2015

  • Old lithograph illustration of Indian Writers Building Calcutta

    A history of cities in 50 buildings
    The Writers' Building, Kolkata: a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 13

    While the skeleton of the original remains, the building’s external structures have been extended and remodelled with the changing intentions of the city’s rulers for more than 230 years

December 2014

  • A Kolkata flower market, India

    Kolkata: a walking and culture tour of India’s city of joy

    Kolkata may be known for culture and crowds but on a city walking tour it’s the air of religious diversity and tolerance that triumphs. Where else would Santa ride a rickshaw?

May 2014

  • Kolkata

    Nightscapes by Gavin Evans: Indian cities after dark – in pictures

    Indian cities bustling with millions of people and vehicles are a familiar sight, but how do they look when darkness falls? Gavin Evans reveals the hours of eerie stillness in India's urban life

February 2014

  • Ian Jack

    Ian Jack on Saturday
    Cars are choking Kolkata, even though only a tiny minority in India can drive

    Ian Jack

    Ian Jack: Once it was possible to enjoy a walk through the streets of Kolkata, now you take your life in your hands, for the car rules

June 2013

  • A street scene in Kolkata

    Backpackers' diaries
    Backpacker diaries: Kolkata to see an old friend

    Simon Gandolfi is celebrating his 80th birthday by undertaking a solo motorbike adventure from India back to Europe. This week he takes a trip (by air) to Kolkata to visit an old friend before starting his long journey home

February 2013

  • Two-lane traffic … one of the living tree bridges in Meghalaya, India.

    India's undiscovered gem: the hills of Meghalaya

    In Meghalaya, north-east India, women own the land, Christianity dominates and the landscape is straight out of The Hobbit. Richard Eilers visits a most unusual Indian state

November 2012

  • Chand Baori stepwell, Abhaneri, at Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

    Experts' and readers' tips
    Cultural sights of India: readers' tips

    Visit the Ganges at dawn, tour Hindu and Jain temples or enjoy a quirky dance performance. Here are our readers' Indian insights

October 2011

  • A Beach Symphony exterior

    10 of the best hotels in India

    The Guardian's south Asia correspondent, Jason Burke, has travelled all over India. Here he chooses his favourite hotels, from an old Rajasthani fort to a cool Delhi pad straight out of Wallpaper*

July 2011

  • Bull Moose confrontation

    Readers' travel tips
    Readers' tips: Best family holidays

    Have you tried a motorhome tour of Alaska or a cycle around the 'green routes' of Spain? Been there readers share their tips on the best places to take the kids

February 2011

  • Ian Jack

    Ian Jack on Saturday
    India's riptide of modern aspiration has not reached Kolkata – but that can't last

    Ian Jack
    Ian Jack: India's riptide of modern aspiration has not reached Kolkata – but that can't last

September 2010

  • kolkata chinatown tangra

    A tourist Chinatown isn't the way for Kolkata's Chinese community

    Once Tangra had 10,000 Indians of Chinese descent, but Kolkata may be too late to recognise their economic value

December 2008

  • 2008 in review
    Calcutta, August

    Your highs and lows of 2008: Calcutta, August

November 2008

  • Ask Tom
    Ask Tom

    Tom Hall of Lonely Planet answers your questions about worldwide travel

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