Deserted streets in India? An uncommon sight.

Cars, buses, countless yellow Ambassador taxis, hand-pulled rickshaws, and India’s only tramway: the streets of Kolkata exist in a near-constant state of movement and congestion.

Yet during Durga Puja, the most significant religious festival in Bengal, this intensity briefly subsides. The streets appear almost emptied, revealing a quieter urban surface in which numerous typographic details come into view.

A day in the city’s streets.