India, Oct. 11 -- Uprooted families left home across the border but carried their goddess along, and in CR Park's clay sheds, Maa is being made again

When the first Bengali families uprooted by Partition settled on a bare stretch of South Delhi in the 1960s, in what was then the East Pakistan Displaced Persons Colony, they carried little besides their language, their love of fish and Maa Durga. The colony, later renamed Chittaranjan Park after the freedom fighter Chittaranjan Das, is now where half of Delhi heads once the dhak starts beating.

A pre-Pujo heritage walk by Sabhyata Foundation traced that story past the Kali Mandir and Market No. 1, where "bhalo achho?" comes before any haggling over fish and the evening adda over tea holds...