<h1>Public art installations revive river ghats and compare wartime famine to modern suffering, raising permits, safety, IP concerns</h1> A Kolkata festival committee engaged a foreign artist to recreate historic river ghats in a public installation aimed at cultural revival, while another committee's display drew parallels between contemporary war-induced humanitarian suffering and the 1943 Bengal famine attributed to colonial-era policies. The installations use evocative symbolism - poems, replicas of vending machines and war debris, famine-styled figures and rice-sack motifs - to protest and memorialize past and present crises. Relevant legal considerations include public exhibition permits, intellectual property and moral rights of contributing artists, public order and safety compliance for large gatherings, and sensitivity to historical and political representations under applicable laws.