The Hindu temple, unlike structures in other religions, has not seen significant evolution in the past century or so. An opportunity to explore the form of the temple came in the year 1986 in the design commission of a temple for the Bengali community in South Delhi. The architects had been initially asked to replicate the Dakshineshwar temple on the banks of the Ganges in Kolkata. To this request, we responded, "give us the Ganges and we will give you Dakshineshwar". The challenge of reinventing the traditional temple form was taken up in the explorations of the form of the shikhara in reinforced concrete conoid shells. The temple as it stands today has surprisingly desirable acoustics, light and cross ventilation. Due to constraints of funding the copper roofing planned for the temple was never executed. The peripheral residential quarters too had been abandoned due to constraints of funding. The centric plan necessitated the creation of a temple within the temple to house the deity. The centre of the space however belongs to the devotee whose restless search for the almighty returns him finally to his inner self.