Celebrating Pôhela Boishakh with style in Lucknow

Well-known Bengali ladies from different walks of life gathered to celebrate Pohela Boishakh, the Bengali New Year at a prominent café in the city, recently.
(L) Joyshree Chatterjee (R) Bulbul Godiyal (BCCL/ Farhan Ahmad Siddiqui)
Dressed in traditional Bengali white sari with red border, the ladies enjoyed an evening full of shayari, singing along with delicious Bengali food.Joyshree, the organiser of the do, looked after the guests, but it was her lip-shaped red purse which attracted the most attention.
— Farhan Ahmad Siddiqui
(L) Dr Ritu Ghosh, Madhumita Bose & Tulika Baneree (R) Priyanka Sarkar (BCCL/ Farhan Ahmad Siddiqui)
(L) Priya Mukherjee and Sumita Bhargava (R) Kastiuri (BCCL/ Farhan Ahmad Siddiqui)
(L) Runa Banerjee (R) Rupali Saha (BCCL/ Farhan Ahmad Siddiqui)
(L) Saroj Mittra (R) Sudeshna Majumdar (BCCL/ Farhan Ahmad Siddiqui)
Abhinav Chhabra (L) and Bhupesh Rai (BCCL/ Farhan Ahmad Siddiqui)
(L) Anuraka Sarkar (R) Aparna Pal (BCCL/ Farhan Ahmad Siddiqui)