Durga Puja 2018: Devotees share their favourite moments from festivities

From the traditional to the modern and everything human, here's how you saw Durga Puja. (A popular North Kolkata Durga Puja) Photo Credit: Debojyoti Sanyal, Sammya Brata Mullick, Supratim Chakraborty, Priyanka Dutta, Subhajit Biswas, Suprotim Nandi/ Lead image by Debojyoti Sanyal)

A traditional idol at a popular North Kolkata pandal. The organisation is celebrating 100 years of puja this year. (Photo: Supratim Chakraborty)

Lightworks mimicking a ship and an eagle enroute to a popular puja pandal. (Photo: Supratim Chakraborty)

Waiting for the Goddess to arrive. (Photo: Sammya Brata Mullick)

Preparations going on at an old residential Puja. (Photo: Sammya Brata Mullick)

The Goddess is decked up in all her fineries at Chor Bagan, Sil bari, Kolkata. (Photo: Sammya Brata Mullick)

Dhakis playing the traditional beats outside a marquee. (Photo: Priyanka Dutta)

The Goddess as a normal woman. (Photo: Priyanka Dutta)

Generations. An elderly man along with a child looks at the deity placed inside the thakur dalan of a house. (Photo: Suprotim Nandi)

An old North Kolkata household Durga Puja. (Photo: Suprotim Nandi)

A traditional idol at a theme-based puja highlighting the zamindari household. (Photo: Subhajit Biswas)

A traditional idol at a marquee. (Photo: Subhajit Biswas)

Ahiritola Yubak Brinda is celebrating Pujo which is based on an unique theme - the rights of sex workers in Calcutta. This is the first time such an alpona has been created in Calcutta. (Photo: Sammya Brata Mullick)