[A. G. Maisey]

The deity Durga has had a bad rap from too many people for too long.

I am not going to attempt to set that straight, I am going to ask anybody who might happen to read what I am now writing to put in just a few minutes and by using only internet resources try to determine exactly who Durga is and why she is so important to followers of Hindu beliefs.

This should not take any more than five or ten minutes and it just might give you a much improved understanding of many things. A short time spent reading, a much longer time spent thinking and you might even start to wonder about the "Veiled Durga" that even supposedly well educated museum staff seem to be so fond of wheeling out on occasion to make little children shudder.