An old woman carries a Tricolour at Majhdia village in Nadia district in West Bengal on Friday. Every year, parts of West Bengal bordering Bangladesh celebrate Independence Day two days after the rest of the country as they were declared to be part of India on the night of August 17, 1947. (PTI)

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