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Ganga Sagar, Rabindranath And Oil Paintings

Coming articles (in picture):
1. Significance of Ganga Sagar Mela
2. Rabindranath Tagore's house in North Bengal
3. Ancient oil paintings of Bengal

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A. B.

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