Attribution
Photo credits
The decorative photography on JugalBandi shows Bengal — its architecture, festivals, flowers and wedding rituals. All of it is free-licensed stock photography from Wikimedia Commons, credited below. These are not member photographs: member photos stay private and are only ever shown according to each member's visibility settings.
Wikimedia Commons
Where each photo comes from
Each file was downloaded from the original, then resized and re-compressed for the web. The licences listed are those of the original works.
Source ↗Bengali Hindu Wedding Sindoor Daan and Ghomta
Webgurusam · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Home hero, member pages
/images/hero-couple.jpg
Source ↗Bridal Mehndi
Iramuthusamy · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Home hero, sign-in panel
/images/hero-mehndi.jpg
Source ↗Gaye Holud and Boron, a Bengali wedding tradition
Goutam1962 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Home — Bengali traditions strip
/images/gaye-holud.jpg
Source ↗Terracotta work on Jor Bangla temple, Bishnupur
Amartyabag · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Home — how it works, footer strip
/images/terracotta-temple.jpg
Source ↗Howrah Bridge, Foggy
Dey.sandip · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Home — district band, footer strip
/images/howrah-bridge.jpg
Source ↗Victoria Memorial, Kolkata at night
Dlinemedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Home — closing call to action
/images/victoria-memorial.jpg
Source ↗Marigold garden (Tagetes patula)
Ввласенко · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Home — questions section
/images/marigold.jpg
Source ↗Bengali sweets — rasgulla
Nishant113 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Home — Bengali traditions strip
/images/mishti.jpg
Source ↗Chalta Bagan Durga Puja 2019
Subhrajyoti07 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Home strip, footer strip
/images/durga-puja.jpg
Source ↗Tea plantation, Darjeeling
Joydeep · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Home strip, footer strip
/images/darjeeling-tea.jpg
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Alpona at Tamluk Junction foot-over bridge
Tarakeswar Dolai · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credits header, member empty states
/images/alpona.jpg
Why stock photography?
A matrimonial platform must never use members' photographs for marketing. Decorative imagery lets the site feel like Bengal without exposing anyone's family photos, and it respects each member's visibility settings at all times.
Reusing these images
Every image remains the work of its credited author and is used under a Creative Commons licence (attribution, and share-alike where marked). Keep the attribution and licence terms if you reuse them elsewhere. The same list lives in frontend/public/images/CREDITS.md.