Its Sunday night illuminations tend to attract more attention, but the murals adorning the interiors of Mysore Palace are the city’s real show stealers. Created in the early 1900s, they offer a window of a lost world of glittering pomp, when the royals celebrated Dushera with lavish processions involving thousands of participants and animals. Every detail, from the ornate military uniforms to designs moulded on the golden elephant howdahs, are rendered in glowing colours.