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Image details : Watercolour depicting a Durga Puja, by Sevak Ram (c.1770-c.1830) in the Patna style, c.1809. Durga is a form of the Great Goddess Devi; she is considered to be one in a variety of personalities of the Hindu goddess. She is most well known as the goddess who killed the Buffalo Demon Mahisha. The Durga puja is an autumn festival where her victory is celebrated and other elements of her mythology are remembered. In this drawing, male dancers and musicians are performing before an image of the goddess Durga installed inside a house. The shrine to Durga depicts her in the moment of triumph over Mahisha. On the left a group of three men are seated on painted stools, one smoking a hookah. Source : British Library

These paintings bring the escapist in us for a moment... A relaxing escape into the past ... Sometimes we need escapades like these . Wondering whether we can jump into the painting and relive those times atleast for a moment...

Well said ! So true...

Beautiful...... Lakshmi and Saraswati figures are exquisite....

Beautiful 'ek chala' durga idol ......a traditional clay image of durga with her four children under one structure (ek is one and chala means cover)....slowly with passage of time the big joint family got fragmented and gave way to tin (three) or panch (five) chala.