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Suhel Seth, Esha Dutta, Rituparna Sengupta, Sundeep Bhutoria, Bickram Ghosh, and Vivek Ojha at the Khuti Puja of Manicktala Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Puja, Kolkata Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], August 17: One bamboo pole for ceremonial worship went into the ground at the Manicktala Chaltabagan Lohapatty premises on Friday evening — and with it, north Kolkata began counting down to Durga Puja. The Khuti Puja, the ritual that plants the pandal’s first pole and, by tradition, opens the year’s work, marked the start of the committee’s 84th year, held on the eve of the country’s 80th Independence Day. The ceremony at…