Madan Mohan Dutta Bari (Hatkhola) Durga Puja 2026
Madan Mohan Dutta Bari (Hatkhola) is a neighbourhood puja in Hatkhola, part of the Bagbazar – Kumartuli – Ahiritola pandal hopping circuit in north Kolkata. It is a bonedi bari, one of the old family pujas held in a heritage house courtyard (thakur dalan), usually calmer and open by day, with a light crowd.
Durga Puja 2026 runs Saturday 17 to Wednesday 21 October. This page is the Madan Mohan Dutta Bari entry in the Kolkata pandal list 2026; the Bagbazar – Kumartuli – Ahiritola pandal hopping route puts it in walking order with its neighbours.
- Nearest metro
- Girish Park Metro~19 min walk
- Peak queue
- Usually none
- Time inside
- ~10 min
- Style
- bonedi bari
- Area
- Hatkhola
- Puja days 2026
- 17 to 21 Oct
Nearest metro station and how to reach Madan Mohan Dutta Bari (Hatkhola)
Take the metro to Girish Park Metro and walk about 19 minutes (1.4 km). On Puja nights the lanes around big pandals are one-way for pedestrians and police may route you a longer way in; follow the barricades. Open walking directions in Google Maps.
There is rarely a long queue; you can usually walk straight in. Plan about 10 minutes inside once you are through the gate.
Pandals near Madan Mohan Dutta Bari (Hatkhola)
Walking times measured on OpenStreetMap streets, without queues.
- Hatkhola Dutta Bari (Nimtala Ghat Street)2 min · 200 m
- Ahiritola Sarbojanin6 min · 490 m
- Ahiritola Jubak Brinda9 min · 720 m
- Adharlal Sen Bari (Beniatola)10 min · 800 m
- Khelat Ghosh Bari (Pathuriaghata)10 min · 800 m
- Baishnab Das Mullick Bari10 min · 820 m
See the whole Bagbazar – Kumartuli – Ahiritola walking route.
Eat, drink, toilets and sights nearby
- Eat: Nalin Chandra Das & Sons (Natun Bazar, Jorasanko) · 650 mSweet shop since 1841 inside Natun Bazar off Rabindra Sarani; the jalbhara sandesh is the thing to buy
- Worth a look: Nimtala Ghat and Rabindranath Tagore memorial · 250 mKolkata's oldest burning ghat (1827), where Tagore was cremated in 1941; the memorial garden is at the gate on Nimtala Ghat Street, with Howrah Bridge views
- Worth a look: Ahiritola Ghat · 320 mOld bathing ghat and ferry point on the Hooghly, 400 m west of Ahiritola Sarbojanin; one of the main idol-immersion ghats on Dashami
Madan Mohan Dutta Bari (Hatkhola): questions people ask
- Which metro station is nearest to Madan Mohan Dutta Bari (Hatkhola)?
- Girish Park Metro is the nearest metro station, about 19 minutes' walk (1.4 km) from the pandal.
- How long is the queue at Madan Mohan Dutta Bari (Hatkhola)?
- There is rarely a long queue; you can usually walk straight in.
- Which pandals are near Madan Mohan Dutta Bari (Hatkhola)?
- Hatkhola Dutta Bari (Nimtala Ghat Street) (2 min walk), Ahiritola Sarbojanin (6 min walk), Ahiritola Jubak Brinda (9 min walk), Adharlal Sen Bari (Beniatola) (10 min walk). The planner can string them into one route.
- When is Durga Puja 2026 at Madan Mohan Dutta Bari (Hatkhola)?
- Durga Puja 2026 runs from Shashthi, Saturday 17 October, to Dashami, Wednesday 21 October 2026. Most big Kolkata pandals open to visitors from Chaturthi (15 October) or earlier, and the crowds peak on Ashtami and Navami evenings (19 and 20 October).
- When does Madan Mohan Dutta Bari (Hatkhola) open to visitors in 2026?
- Most pandals of this size are open and lit from Panchami or Shashthi (16 or 17 October 2026); the committee announces the exact day. Chaturthi and Panchami evenings are the best time to see it without the queue.
- Where is Madan Mohan Dutta Bari (Hatkhola) and is entry free?
- Madan Mohan Dutta Bari (Hatkhola) is in Hatkhola, north Kolkata, on the Bagbazar – Kumartuli – Ahiritola circuit, about 19 minutes' walk from Girish Park Metro. Entry is free, as at every Durga Puja pandal in Kolkata; the "VIP passes" sold online are private queue-skipping products, not tickets.