Invoking Durga Durga, the supreme goddess of feminine creative energy, was a transformation of the Goddess Trinity (Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati) into a warrior goddess to fight buffalo-demon Mahishasura. She was made blindingly beautiful, with three lotus-like eyes, eight powerful hands, lush black hair and golden skin. Each god gave her his most powerful weapon — Rudra’s trident, Vishnu’s discus, Indra’s thunderbolt, Brahma’s Kamandal and a fierce white lion to ride by the Himalayas. On the 10th day of the waxing moon Durga killed the demon. In this month of Ashwin, Maa Durga, as she is called, has come to her parents’ home with her children Ganesh, Kartick, Lakshmi and Saraswati. Tejas Art Gallery celebrates the season with a group show of 18 artists and their varied representations of Durga as the epitome of strength and beauty.The show comprises paintings and sculpture. One of the paintings (by Ashok Ganguly) from the ongoing show appears above. Event: An exhibition of paintings and sculpture When: Till November 3; 3 pm - 7.30 pm (except Sunday) Where: Tejas Art Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road

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Till October 20 at Galerie Karma, P-505 Keyatola Road, #24636731/2; 10 am - 7 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Arunava Mondal, Ashok Bhowmik, Atin Basak, Dhiren Sasmal, Diptish Ghosh Dastidar, Pradip Das, Pradip Pradhan, Pradip Rakshit, Partha Dasgupta, Rajib Bhattacharjee, Saikat Maity, Sanjay Manna, Subrata Sen, Sudhangshu Bandopadhay, Sudipta Tewari, Swapan Ghosh and Swapan Kumar Saha. Curated by Akumal Ramachander. Till October 20 at Galerie La Mere; 4 pm - 8 pm: Durga, an exhibition of paintings. Participating artists include Jogen Chowdhury, Paritosh Sen, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Wasim Kapoor, Uma Siddhant and Niranjan Pradhan. Till October 24 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahar Road, #24752275; 3 pm - 8 pm: Chitrakoot presents an exhibition of paintings and sculptures, Devi Durga. Till October 26 (except October 18 - 21) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, 11 am - 7 pm: Surfaces and Textures — works by Dattatraya Apte, Kishore Shinde, Manjari Chakravarty, Mekhala Bahl, Mithu Sen, Mona Rai, Neha Turakhia, Ranjith Raman, Rooshika Patel, Shobha Broota, Tapati Chowdhury, Yashwant Deshmukh and Yogesh Rawal. Till October 27 at Mon Art Gallery, 6 Picasso Bithi (Hungerford Street), Regency Building, 3rd floor, #22895438; 11.30 am - 7 pm: Three Amigos, an exhibition of abstract paintings by the trio from Goa: Deviprasad C Rao, Suhas Shilker and Swatee Nair. Till October 27 (except Monday) at Bose Pacia Kolkata, 18 Stephen Court, #65459955; 11 am - 7 pm: Equinox Shift — new paintings and works on paper by Joydip Sengupta. Till October 28 (except Sundays) at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road; 11 am - 8 pm: An Evening in Paris — experiences of a group of artists as they traversed through various museums and art galleries of Paris, Rome, Venice and London. Till October 30 (except Sundays) at Gallery Kolkata, 41 Shakespeare Sarani, 2nd floor, Duckback House; 11 am - 7 pm: A Brush with Durga, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Jogen Chowdhury, Prakash Karmakar, Shuvaprasanna, Suhas Roy, Rini Dhumal, K.S. Radhakrishnan, Ashoke Mullick, Aloke Sardar, Arup Das, Manoj Mitra, Dwijen Gupta, Ram Kumar Manna, Mehazabin I Mazumder, Bratin Khan, Suman Roy, Sudipta Datta, K. Muralidharan, Sadhan Chakraborty, Shyamal Roy, Shyamal Mukherjee, Debabrata Chakraborty, Shekhar Kar, Subroto Biswas, Chanchal Mukherjee, Sanatan Dinda and Swapan Kumar Das. Till October 31 at Kanvas Art Gallery, 53 Syed Amir Ali Avenue, Shivam Chambers, 2nd floor; 3 pm - 7 pm: A Spiritual Tribute, a duet - lens and brush. Fine art photography by Partha Choudhury, and mystical strokes by Nitya Kundu, Sanjib Roy, Subrata Pal, Subrata Das and Jiban Biswas. Till November 3 (except Sundays) at Tejas Arts Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road, opp. Ice Skating Rink; 3 pm - 7.30 pm: Tejas presents Devi — eighteen artists’ versions of Goddess Durga. Participating artists: Abhijit Ghosh, Anita Gurbaxani, Anirban Seth, Ashok Ganguly, Barun Saha, Biswarup Haldar, Debasish Sen Gupta, Dhiren Sasmal, Goutam Sarkar, Palash Paul, Partha Ray, Ritu Poddar, Runu Misra Banerjee, Samir Aich, Sarbani Ganguly, Shambhu Saha, Sudipto Tiwari, Swapan Kumar Saha, Tarun Chakravorty, Ujjwal Debnath and Buddhadeb Bose. October 23 - 30 (except October 25) at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Soul Food, an exhibition of paintings by Chandranath Saha, Nandita Mukherjee, Sudipta Dutta and Susanta De.

DRAMA

n October 19 at Tapan Theatre; 3 pm & 6.30 pm: Lok-Krishti presents Krishna Gahvar. Drama, direction & acting: Bratya Basu. October 19 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Arghya presents Tagore’s Rakta Karabi. Direction: Manish Mitra. October 19 at Sujata Sadan; 6.30 pm: Anya Theatre presents Bidhayak Bhattacharjee’s Draupadir Bastra Haran (Dir: Sanat Chandra) and Parichalona (Dir: Debashis Roychoudhury). October 19 at Academy of Fine Arts; 7 pm: Kalyani Natyacharcha presents Babarer Prarthana. Drama: Bratya Basu. Direction: Kishore Sengupta. October 20 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Nandikar presents Abanindranath Tagore’s Bappaditya. Main performance: Sohini Sengupta. Music & direction: Goutam Halder. October 20 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Nandikar presents its new production, Nana Ranger Din (Drama: Anton Chekov/Ajitesh Bandyopadhyay; Performance: Prathapratim Deb and Rudraprasad Sengupta; Dir: Rudraprasad Sengupta) and Chokh Gyalo (Story: Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay; Main performance: Swatilekha Sengupta; Dir: Goutam Halder). October 22 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Natyaranga presents Dena Paona, based on Saratchandra Chattopadhyay’s work. Drama: Surajit Bandyopadhyay. Direction: Swapan Sengupta.

FESTIVAL

Till October 21 at Sringeri Sri Sarada Peetham Sankara Hall, 93 Southern Avenue, #24661767: Sri Sarada Navarathri Celebrations 2007. Today: Pooja, Archana and Devi Mahatmya Parayanam at 7 am; Laksharchana begins at 9 am; Lalitha Sahasranama Archana recitation of slokas at 6 pm, and Sangeeta Sabha - Harish Kalidas (violin solo) with K. Srividya (violin) with P. Aravindan (mridangam) at 6.45 pm. Till October 21 at Swabhumi: Swabhumi presents Dandiya Utsav, a programme based on Dandiya.

DURGA PUJA

Till October 20 at Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math: Sri Sri Durga Puja 2007 according to Vishuddha Siddhanta Almanac. Mahashtami (October 19): Puja begins at 5.40 am; Kumari Puja at 9 am; Distribution of prasada at 12 noon; Sandhi Puja 1.51 am to 2.39 am (late night). Mahanavami (October 20): Puja begins at 5.40 am; Homa after Bhogarati of Sri Sri Devi. Vijaya Dashami (October 21): Puja begins at 7 am; Immersion and Shantivari after evening arati of Sri Sri Thakur. Special launch services throughout the day by West Bengal Surface Transport Corporation Limited.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Till October 20 at Kalyani Clinic & Laboratory, 872 Sarat Chatterjee Road, Belepole, Batore, Howrah; 6 pm - 10 pm: Picturesque, a group of contemporary photographers, presents its seventh annual show.

MIME SHOW

October 23 at Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, Salt Lake; 6 pm: EZCC hosts Abanchhita, a mime show by Thakurnagar Mime Academy of Culture, Thakurnagar, North 24 Parganas.

EXHIBITION

Till October 25 at Utopia, 94C Bakul Bagan Road, Paddapukur; 10 am - 6 pm: An exhibition of lifestyle products comprising platters, candles, boxes, mats, trays, vases and ornate mirrors.All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to: Time out, The Telegraph, 6, Prafulla Sarkar Street, Calcutta-700 001; Fax: 2234-8244

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