See a Durga idol made in Kumartuli

Celebrate the festival of colors in India's major cities

Visit Kolkata, capital of West Bengal. Explore the Victoria Memorial (white marble monument with museum and gardens), cross the Howrah Bridge (iconic cantilever bridge over the Hooghly River), browse the Indian Museum (oldest and largest museum in India with diverse collections), and try street food like puchka (crispy hollow puris filled with spicy tamarind water) at Park Street.

A lonely wife in 1879 Calcutta and her husband's cousin; Satyajit Ray's own favourite.

Medieval Newar royal square of pagodas and wood-carved palaces.

Read the Bhagavad Gita, a 700-verse Hindu scripture that is part of the Mahabharata epic

Read the Upanishads, ancient Sanskrit texts that form the philosophical foundation of Hinduism

Rock-cut cave temples in Maharashtra, crowned by the monolithic Kailasa temple.

Boulder-strewn ruins of the Vijayanagara empire along the Tungabhadra river.