Magazine
Sharad Utshav
শারদ উৎসব
The temple's annual Durga Puja anthology — Bengali poetry and prose, reflections and artwork from our community. Read the 2026 edition online, and every issue since 2021.
Sharad Utshav — literally “the autumn festival” — is the souvenir magazine Shiv Mandir publishes each year alongside Durga Puja. It began with the temple’s first Puja in 2021 and has appeared every autumn since, assembled by volunteers in the weeks before the celebration.
Each issue is a সংকলন — an anthology. It opens with a column from the editor and gathers poetry and prose in Bengali, reflections on scripture, and writing from members of Michigan’s Sanatan community, with cover art and layout by volunteers from the temple. The very first issue, Sharad Utshav ১৪২৮, appeared in October 2021.
Every issue is free to read. From 2026 the magazine is published as a website of its own, which reads properly on a phone; the earlier issues remain exactly as they were printed, as PDFs. Those files are large, because the artwork and photography are reproduced at print quality — on a phone you may prefer to download them.
Sharad Utshav 2026
শারদ উৎসব ১৪৩৩
The sixth annual issue is the first the temple has published as a magazine you read in the browser. Stories, poems, art and songs to welcome Maa Durga home. Nothing to download: open the contents, pick a piece, and read.
- pieces
- 33pieces
- sections
- 14sections
- voices
- 10voices
The archiveপুরনো সংখ্যা
Every issue from the temple’s first Puja onwards, as published.
Contribute
Write for the next issue
Sharad Utshav is put together by volunteers, every year. If you write, draw, photograph, sing or film and would like to see your work in the next issue — in Bengali or in English — send it through the submission form, or write to the editors. The issue is assembled in the weeks before Durga Puja, so earlier is better.