India, Oct. 12 -- On the eve of Mahalaya, Method, a contemporary art gallery in Defence Colony, opened its show with a listening of the one-and-a-half-hour audio montage of Chandipath, the recitation of verses from the Sri Sri Chandi or Durga Saptashati, as rendered by Birendra Krishna Bhadra for the early Bengali dawn programme that All India Radio has broadcast in West Bengal since 1931. The programme has become synonymous with Mahalaya, which ushers in the Devipaksha lunar fortnight and the Durga Puja, and to this day much of Bengal and eastern India wakes at four in the morning on Mahalaya to tune in to the Mahishasuramardini broadcast. As the season of the Goddess opens in Delhi, the city's centre shifts to Chittaranjan Park, where Ben...