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It's Hot, originally uploaded by T1TAN.

Hand pulled Rickshaws are not a common site at Kolkata now -a-days, but at some portions of the city they are still present. This is April and quite hot here. One of the Rickshaw puller taking a nap at 7:30 in the morning!
A street shot from West Bengal.

All under one flag, originally uploaded by Apratim Saha.

Gangasagar Mela is the largest fair celebrated in West Bengal, India. Makar Sankranti is celebrated in the last day of the Bengali month of Poush. In Bengal, this day is one of the most auspicious day of the year. Thousands of pilgrims from different parts of the country gather at Gangasagar, the point where the holy river Ganges meets the sea, to take a dip and wash away all the earthly sins. Makar Sankranti falls on the day of the year when the sun-considered the king of all grahas (planets)-is in the rashi (zodiac sign) known as Makar (Capricorn). This is considered the most beneficial and auspicious zodiac of the sun. The calculations for determining Makar Sankranti are done according to the solar calendar. Therefore, Makar Sankranti always falls on the 14th January according to the English calendar. It is usually the month of Magh of the Hindu calendar, the 'Tithi' or the position of the moon keeps shifting because of the difference in calculations.

Summer of 2009, originally uploaded by SUBHROCLiCKS.

I clicked this in North Bengal, Where those little boys were diving to entertain us. Usually they do this to earn some money from tourists. This is one of my favorite photograph.

the resting feet, originally uploaded by Samir D.

he lived in bihar.. has shifted to kolkata to find atleast a minimum job.. finally he works as a clay-bearer.. transfers it from one place to another... after an another tiresome work, he was resting. that moment i caught him..

em-bypass area, kolkata, india

Beautiful hijras in the streets of Kolkata, originally uploaded by rivoluzione.

Kolkata (India). August 2007. Festival in the streets of Kolkata with about a dozen of hijras, indian cross dresser/trans gender. They asked me to dance with them to be allowed to portrait them. I danced with all of them for about one hour. One of the funniest (and sweatiest) days of my life.

travel, originally uploaded by $owmya.

Shot inside local mini bus of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Kolkata has an extensive network of government run and privately owned buses. The private-owned buses are quite typical of kolkata and are usually very crowded. The private-owned buses are of two types. The regular ones and the mini-buses.

Rai Banshe 2, originally uploaded by ramesh_lalwani.

In the middle ages the Bengal infantry soldiers strictly used only bamboos for all fighting purposes. Today the Raibanshe dancers carry on this Bengal martial tradition in their performance through dance and acrobats. These dancers’ dress code is simple but striking consisting of white dhoti covered with a red waist band. This form of dance is traditionally performed to the accompaniment of dhol (the drum), the kanshi (a gong of bell metal) but in the recent times other instruments like flute and dhamsa (copper plate) have also been introduced.