Durga Puja in color
This is the online appendix for 25¢ a Cup,- a book about the year I spent finding Paris in India, finding that lost city of art in Calcutta.
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The altar for the Hijara temple. "The goddess has attributes of both Durga and Krishna to show fluidity of gender. She’s playing Krishna’s flute not wielding the weapon with which Durga slays the demon. …. Durga’s foot isn’t crushing the emerald green demon. Her foot’s caress is flirtatious, not damning and the demon is not slain, but smitten."
