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Durga

Kolkata's artists had to burn the midnight oil to get their Durga pujas ready early for the special art preview for visiting dignitaries. 

Art and religion remix at this goddess festival in Kolkata

Religion

The five-day Durga Puja festival brings the city of Kolkata, India, to a standstill as throngs of people visit elaborate temples to the Goddess Durga that spring up everywhere.

Women lie on a green cloth and practice aiming their guns while wearing red sashes.

Good wives, good soldiers: Durga Vahini women take up arms to protect Hindu identity

Global Politics
Each neighborhood in Kolkata has its own celebration with a different artist creating the idol of Durga, showing her killing the demon.

Why do we celebrate goddesses, but treat our women so poorly?

Belief
An artist applies the finishing touches on an idol of the Hindu goddess Durga in preparation for a yearly festival for Bengali Hindus.

For Bengali Hindus, radio is an unchanging part of a religious tradition

Media