Christmas in Kolkata is an annual celebration on the 25th of December to mark the birth of Jesus Christ, something that happens worldwide.
The special thing in Kolkata is that irrespective of the religion that a festival belongs to, the people of the city celebrate it with great fervour. And it is the same with Christmas as well.
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The entire city is decked in cutouts of Santa. The churches illuminate in colourful lights. The festival is most cheerfully observed in the city’s heart Park Street and Bo Barracks.
Leaving behind all the dealings of the past year, the people here prepare to embrace an new unknown in the coming year.
Siddhartha’s journey has by no means been smooth or easy, he is a common man with a routine job, who has struggled in his domestic life. What had begun as only the documentation of his avid travelling and wander lust, underwent many twists of life and fate to become the apex of street genre it is today. Diagnosed with severe eyesight issues and suspected eye cancer, almost put an end to his passion for photography leaving him physically and mentally broken, with no clear path to move ahead, this deep thinking and sensitive man did not stop embracing life with whatever little he had. Being forbidden to get out in bright sun, he continued to take pictures from within his room and in the evening. He fell in love with the old charms of the city anew. He fell in love with something so many of us take for granted, his eyesight.
