A question asked in whispers, with hesitant eyes, by people across castes, genders, sexualities, and communities—by the so-called “unfit.” But in the arms of the Dark Mother, there are no exclusions.

The goddess Kali is everything, and more. She is time — kaal — and the destroyer of time. She is also kaalo, dark, and naked, above the qualities of colour and light and the features of body and form.