Photos of the week: Festivities, tragedy and yet again dissent on streets

New Delhi: Festivities, foreign visit, tragedy and dissent—a week captured in pictures by ThePrint’s photojournalists and reporters.

Durga Puja celebration by the Ballygunge Cultural Association in Kolkata | Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint

Childhood friends Tania Biswas (18) and Barnali Halder (17) were among those who lost their lives at the stampede in Kolkata’s Chorbagan Sarbojanin Durga Puja pandal. The two families came together to mourn loss of their loved ones | Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (seated in the background between the two characters on the stage) during Dussehra festival celebrations of Nav Shri Dharmik Leela Committee, at Red Fort in New Delhi | ThePrint Photos

Hand-written posters put up on a vandalised Left bookstall in Kolkata. Left workers have blamed BJP for such attacks across Kolkata and West Bengal during Durga Puja | Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi | Praveen Jain | ThePrint

Workers and supporters of Left-backed outfits during a protest demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar | Saksham Dhingra | ThePrint

Floodlights illuminate a box cricket turf in Gurugram, where players can book the enclosed ground for games in late evenings | Manisha Mondal | ThePrint