A huge thank you for the overwhelming response to our photo competition with & .festival. The creativity, stories, and memories you shared around were nothing short of magical.
After much debate (and plenty of “how do we even choose?!” moments), we’ve selected 10 standout photographs that truly captured the spirit of water and memory.
These images will not only be celebrated online but will also find a special place at the River Festival this December, where we’ll felicitate the brilliant storytellers behind the lens.
15/08/2025
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12/08/2025
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Baba waits outside mudikhanar dokan, one hand on his stick, the other tracing circles on the rim of a packet of chanachur he will not open until you come.
Maa keeps the phone beside her like a warm cup of tea, lifting it now and then, as though your voice might spill from it, if she only pressed hard enough.
And you... you reminisce about a different Pujo.
The kind where Baba came home with Aanondomela Pujabarshiki, its pages smelling of freshly cut paper. You would flip straight to the Feluda comics, before saving Shirshendu’s notun uponnyash for the Sunday afternoons.
The kind where new clothes came on these four days, with a reason — not on random “end of reason sales” of the year.
The kind where you and Maa checked the radio before Mahalaya, making sure its voice was clear enough to hold Birendra Krishna Bhadra’s magic at dawn.
But then, one day, you left.
College. Work. The chase for something larger than this small street, larger than the rooms that have always known your name.
And Pujo stayed behind.
The lights still glow, the idols still rise, the dhaak still beats. But the air feels stretched thin, like a bedsheet that’s been pulled too far.
But this year, you finally, finally, find your way back home.
That’s the thing about homecoming. You never return to the same house you left. The paint has aged, the cushions sag, the neighbour’s kid is suddenly taller than you.
You change too.
But the people at home... they don’t stop keeping your place.
Baba still stands outside the shop at the corner, scanning faces, as if you might turn up any second.
Maa still keeps the phone close, in case your voice comes through.
Because pujo isn’t asking for your presence at the pandal. It’s asking for your footsteps on the stairs.
“Baari aaye ebaar, onek hoyeche.”
Come home.
Come home.
Come home.
It’s been enough.
— Homecoming, by Aishwarya ()
02/08/2025
Kolkata’s charm, frame by frame — captured perfectly with 📸🌇
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02/08/2025
Reflections of Calcutta on Water 🌀
This , frame Kolkata’s soul through water, rain slick streets, ferry ghats, rooftop tanks, monsoon puddles, and more.
This year, we join the global initiative , honoring how water holds memory, emotion, and identity. Your photograph isn’t just an image, it’s a story retold through reflection, ripples, and rain.
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24/07/2025
20/07/2025
To live in a home where doors don’t slam to prove a point.
Where someone will ask, “How was your day?” and they will mean it.
Where you will say “fine” out of habit, but they will wait, for the real answer.
Where there will be payesh in the kitchen, just because it’s a Thursday and you said you felt like having some.
A home where you are allowed to take up space,
with a window that lets the afternoon in, and no one is yelling in the background.
To live in a home where the taxi can wait.
The tea can grow cold while you talk.
Nothing will be more urgent than kindness.
And when the door opens,
it won’t be because someone is storming out,
but because someone is ready to welcome you in.
To live in a home where we will break the cycle, and nothing, not even the silence, will feel unsafe.
— Welcome Home, by Aishwarya ()
14/07/2025
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As we gear up to celebrate 10 years of Calcutta Cacophony, we’re looking for passionate, creative minds to join us behind the scenes.
We’re currently opening internship roles for:
1. Video Creator – Someone who can ideate, shoot, and edit compelling short-form content that captures energy and emotion.
2. Graphic Designer – A visual thinker who can translate stories, culture, and chaos into bold, scroll-stopping designs.
3. Social Media Operations – A digital native who understands what clicks, what trends, and how to build conversations that matter.
4. Research & Writing – Someone who can deep-dive into culture, artists, and storytelling, and bring it all to life through sharp, engaging writing.
This is a hands-on internship that involves working closely with our core team across branding, content, campaigns, and live event coverage. It’s intense, fast-paced, and packed with learning.
If you're excited by storytelling, festivals, and youth culture—and you’re ready to put your creativity to the test, we’d love to hear from you.
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Calcutta Cacophony is not just another Marketing Organization that will provide you with the typical services that are expected of such an establishment. Calcutta Cacophony is entirely run by a young bunch of talented individuals, who can offer a unique aspect to the entire approach of promotions and marketing, at every step of project development. Your promotional strategy will be planned and executed by the young folk here, and we promise you an exhilarating ride throughout.
Calcutta Cacophony had humble roots when it first came to being in 2014. Just another aspiring handle on Instagram, we started with reposting photos on the profile, trying to promote city-based photographers who needed a platform.
Soon enough, our vision made its way to Facebook. And, we found a new team, comprising of a dedicated, young, enthusiastic crowd, nurtured in various fields, by the city itself. Calcutta Cacophony, on Facebook went on to become one of the biggest mixed media art forums on Facebook of Calcutta, garnering both critical and popular acclaim.
The ever-growing youth brigade here has taken the city's streets by storm in order to find urban conciliation. Relentless walks, relentless searches far and wide, through and across the city, these youngsters here have discovered a treasure trove: Calcutta; and its bare soul.
Calcutta Cacophony, while continuing to be a platform for aspiring artistes both virtually, and physically, has stepped into the realms of digital marketing, product publicity, and event management with great gusto, apart from newer ventures including lifestyle blogging, and media handling. And every day, with the support of each and every one of its followers, it takes bold steps in all leading aspects of media.
But above all, we strive to present and capture the soul of the city, that we call Calcutta, for the populace and beyond. Calcutta is an emotion; and we promise to protect and nurture it.
