The new: A Bengali harvest festival in November to mark a new rice crop. Offerings of "nabanna" or "new rice/food" are made to the Goddess Laxmi.
The old: Simply a place to do a lot of writing. Sometimes to not do a lot of writing, given the people there.
Which move in October 2013 is this a cryptic reference to?
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The West Bengal government's offices were in a historic building called "Writer's Building". This has been (temporarily) moved to a new structure in Hooghly called "Nabanna".
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