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About this blog

Hi welcome to our blog, the Kala Gallery blog is a great place to share your travel photographs with like minded people, share stories and travel tips.

Come and join us and help create a great blog for travellers to read and share information, also within the blog you will find information on the Kala Gallery Store and some of our products we sell, you will also be the first to see special offers and promotions we run from time to time.

We look forward to you joining our community and sharing your stories and photographs.

About Kala Gallery.

Kala Gallery is an Online Store selling goods ethically purchased in India, it is our objective to source the best quality art and crafts at source for resale in the UK.

We are seasoned travellers to India and have 13 years of backpacking experience. In parts of this blog you will find travel tips and our personal recommendations on where to stay and eat (these opinions are ours alone and not sponsored by third parties). If you have experiences with travel around India share them with us and our community.

In other parts of this blog you will find products from our Online Store, these will be highlights of items we have both in stock and coming soon, along with these you will also find more detailed information on the products and art behind their creation.

Hand carved from the wood of the Kadamba tree ‘The name Kadamba being a suffix to the dynasty of Mayursharma, the progenitor of his dynasty—the Kadamba Dynasty which ruled from Banavasi in what is now the state of Karnataka. In Northern India, the tree is associated with Krishna while in the south it is known as “Parvathi’s tree”.

Each of these statues is hand painted with the finest detail and carved in the image of Lord Ganesha. Ganesha’s elephant head makes him easy to identify and is widely revered as the Remover of Obstacles and more generally as Lord of Beginnings and Lord of Obstacles (Vighnesha, Vighneshvara), patron of arts and sciences, and the deva of intellect and wisdom.