Kolkata, Aug. 31 -- Grammy Award winner and Padma Bhushan recipient Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is set to add a musical dimension to this year's Durga Puja celebrations with a special composition inspired by the festival's devotional traditions. Bhatt unveiled the composition in the presence of members of the Ramnami Samaj of Chhattisgarh as part of the 84th Manicktala Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Puja.

The Ramnami Samaj is a devotional community founded in the 1890s in Chhattisgarh as a peaceful protest against temple exclusion. Denied entry to the temples, members tattooed the name of Ram across their entire bodies to turn their bodies into temples

Bhatt said the composition draws inspiration from the Mahishasura Mardini tradition and in...