Politician decrees Indian city of Kolkata will be painted blue and white
Drawing inspiration from her proletarian wardrobe of hand-woven white cotton saris with sky blue trim, Mamata Banerjee decreed that Kolkata be repainted in those colors.
Some find the painting scheme in Kolkata dizzying.
(Shashank Bengali / Los Angeles Times)Drawing inspiration from her proletarian wardrobe of hand-woven white cotton saris with sky blue trim, Mamata Banerjee decreed that Kolkata be repainted in those colors.
Planters have been painted blue and white along a major street in Kolkata, India.
(Shashank Bengali / Los Angeles Times)Residents wait at a newly painted bus stop in Kolkata, india.
(Shashank Bengali / Los Angeles Times)The 15-story temporary headquarters of the West Bengal state government in India has been repainted in blue and white under the orders of the state’s chief minster, Mamata Banerjee.
(Shashank Bengali / Los Angeles Times)A taxi matches the new color scheme at a police checkpoint near the Hooghly River in Kolkata, India.
(Shashank Bengali / Los Angeles Times)Taxi driver Akhil Yadhav steers his old yellow taxi through the newly painted blue and white streets of Kolkata, India.
(Shashank Bengali / Los Angeles Times)