Kolkata’s Dragon Boat Festival: Colours on water in the City of Joy

Kolkata saw India's first Dragon Boat Festival at the Rabindra Sarobar on Sunday. (Subhankar Chakraborty/ HT Photo)

Updated on: Jun 27, 2016 8:56 PM IST

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Kolkata saw India's first Dragon Boat Festival at the Rabindra Sarobar on Sunday. (Subhankar Chakraborty/ HT Photo)

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Participants of a Dragon Boat Festival at the Rabindra Sarobar, which is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month of the Chinese calendar. (Subhankar Chakraborty/ HT Photo)

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Members of Chinese community in Kolkata attend the Dragon Boat Festival at the Rabindra Sarobar. The festival marks the death of Chinese poet and patriot Qu Yuan. (Subhankar Chakraborty/ HT Photo)

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Rovers at the Rabindra Sarobar in Kolkata during the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival. (Subhankar Chakraborty/ HT Photo)

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A senior participant at the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival. (Subhankar Chakraborty/ HT Photo)

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A woman with her son enjoys the festival. The festival remembers Chinese poet and patriot Qu Yuan, who immersed himself into the Miluo river to perform a ritual suicide, thereby ending his life. (Subhankar Chakraborty/ HT Photo)

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Audience gathered in large numbers to witness the Dragon Boat Festival at Rabindra Sarobar in Kolkata on Sunday. (Subhankar Chakraborty/ HT Photo)