Depicting goddess Durga in different mediums
The Statesman | 19 September 2025The exhibition titled Mahamaya will showcase Ma Durga in old coins, lithographs among others. Three hundred-year-old Puja utensils will be exhibited. Swami Suparnanandaji Maharaj, secretary Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture will inaugurate the exhibition. The exhibition, first of its kind, is presented by Heritage and We. The president of the forum is Asit Pal, Dr Sankha Basu its vice-president and Souvik Roy secretary of the forum, have brought collections from across the country to make the exhibition one of its kind.
On display will be rare coins, tokens, stamps, labels, oleographs, lithographs, offset prints, vintage photographs to tribal paintings. There are rare sculptures of Ma Durga. Books, advertisements even Ma Durga on match boxes will be on display.
Collection from Sabarna Sangrahasala, Cooch Behar archive, Kolkatar Nakshikantha, Akhon Satyajit and Bhagalpur Heritage Society will be on display. Around twenty nine well-known collectors are participating in the exhibition. To name some of them who will take part, included Soumen Nath, Kinjal Bose, Suzanne Bose, Debashis Dasgupta, Chitralekha Dey, Sambhu Roy, Esha Basu and Chandra Shekhar Basu Majumdar.
Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture Museum and Art Gallery has a collection featuring works of contemporary artists and those of the past, including Nandalal Bose, Jogen Chowdhury, Paresh Maity, Sanatan Dinda among others. There is an elaborate kantha tapestry depicting the life of Swami Vivekananda.
