Mahalaya 2024: Top 30 wishes and messages to share with loved ones

Each year, as October arrives and the Hindu calendar turns toward Durga Puja, the festival of Mahalaya opens a season of devotion and communal warmth that has moved through generations. In 2024, Livemint gathered thirty wishes and images to help people — whether in India or scattered across the world's diaspora — reach across distance and mark the moment together. The medium is new, the screen instead of the courtyard, but the impulse is ancient: to greet one another as the goddess begins her descent and the season turns toward light.