When the rest of India lights lamps for Lakshmi, Bengal lights them for Kali—the mother who destroys to renew. Kali Puja is not just a festival of devotion; it is a night of reckoning, transformation, and intimacy with the divine feminine. From the cremation ground to the courtyard, Bengal’s relationship with Kali mirrors the evolution of faith itself—how fear becomes love, and darkness becomes divine.