As per the Hindu calendar, the day before Diwali, the 14th day of the dark fortnight of the month of Ashwin (Kartik month according to North Indian belief), is observed as Kali Chaudas, to worship the ...

At first glance, Goddess Kali appears intense dark complexion, wild hair, blood-red tongue, weapons in hand. Many wonder: Why does a goddess look so fierce? The truth is deeply spiritual. Kali’s ...

Goddess Kali is always consdered as the most fierce form of Maa Durga but she takes this form just to eliminate the demons from the universe. She naturally bestows courage, strength, confidence, and ...

The goddess Kali is everything, and more. She is time — kaal — and the destroyer of time. She is also kaalo, dark, and naked, above the qualities of colour and light and the features of body and form.

One of the oldest stories about Kali that’s told in Bengali households harks back to when the male gods failed to control the mayhem unleashed by rampant asuras. The formidable goddess, in her ...

A ground-breaking new exhibition in the capital traces Kali’s earliest representations in painting as described in the 5th Century Puranic text, the Devi Mahatmyam, through to 20th-century works of ...