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By Ramyani Banerjee The fat-bellied ghosts from Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne. Image Source:- Ray, Satyajit, director. Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne. 1969, YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-s-9hp5bIQ....

By Ramyani Banerjee The Early Beginnings: (Left) Durga in Battala Print, late 19th century. Available at: https://dagworld.com/bengalwoodcut03.html [Accessed 25 September 2025]. (Right) Goddesses Durga (as...

By Ramayani Banerjee From as early as the Vedic period (pre-1000 BCE), various texts like the Rigveda, Samaveda, Shatapatha Brahmana and Taittiriya Samhita refer to...

By Ramyani Banerjee Discovery and a Name That Sings In the dry terrain in the Pranhita-Godavari region near Pochampally, a village straddling Telangana and Maharashtra...

By Ramyani Banerjee All of the Ten Madavidyas. ca. 1885 (At Top, from left to right:- Kali, Tara, Shodashi, Bhuvaneshwari and Bhairavi At Bottom, from...