Durga दुर्गा | Dancing With Her Lion in the Soft Light | Museum Poster

दुर्गा | Not every face of the goddess is fierce, grandchild. Sometimes she dances with her lion as if they were old friends out for a quiet evening. The cream and the rose-gold of the air, the lion's mane spilling into the cloth of her sari, the weapons held loose. He is not roaring. She is not riding to battle. They are just moving together through the warm dusk. The old painters used to say: when you see Durga like this, she has come to remind you that even strength gets to be playful sometimes. Even she has soft days.