Famine, Gaza and Nabanna: Kolkata’s Puja pandal sparks conversations

A Kolkata pandal by Behala Club, inspired by Bijon Bhattacharya’s 1944 play Nabanna, confronts famine, State violence, and the Gaza genocide. Artist Pradip Das correlates these histories of hunger and violence through aural readings of Palestinian poetry and references to Bengal famine drawings, creating a stark, layered installation.