Abstract
Mirra Richard, the pretty Parisienne, was beatified, even apotheosized, in life, and when she died a respectable nonagenarian in 1973, thousands mourned the passing away of the goddess of Auroville. This good fortune of a real life human goddess eluded the fate of a rural teenager of Victorian fiction, Dayamayi, the main character of Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay's obscure short story Devi (The Goddess). When it was filmed in 1960 by Satyajit Ray, Devi provoked a mixed reaction among movie-goers and critics at home––from a sense of boredom of having to watch another film on the theme of feudal decadence, albeit less entertaining, than Jalsaghar (The Music Room, 1958), to an outrage at what some felt was the film's pronounced anti-Hindu bias.
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