🅘 Mahakal Corridor Project in Ujjain: By launching the ambitious and one of the most expensive projects in recent history, the BJP is trying not only to reach out to Dalits and OBCs but also to use it as a grand narrative to win over the South where Shiva, not Ram, is the reigning deity
꧑ We forget that Shiva is present in both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, crushing the arrogance of Ravan and humbling the privileged Arjun. This cannot be explained historically, writes noted author Devdutt Pattanaik
👍 Ganeshwar, a PhD scholar with the Hyderabad University, tells us why Hindu nationalists will find it difficult to construct Shiva as the face of their aspirations in southern states
🔯 For Y. S. Alone, the idea of Shiva as the God of Dalits and Adivasis is a misnomer, as they neither have any special spaces of worship nor are they part of Hindu rituals
💙 According to scholars, the Lingayats are followers of Shiva in the form of Basava and reject practices like caste and gender discrimination, unlike the Veerashaivas, who accept the Vedic texts and practices like these, says Haima Deshpande
🌺 As the Jharkhand government has failed to keep its promise to drop all cases against them, thousands of Adivasis accused of waging war against the Indian state feel cheated
ꦍ In his incisive analysis, Peerzada Muzamil underlines the importance of focusing on ‘preventive and promotive healthcare’, apart from making accessible expensive medicare to the poor and most needy
🦄 Shiva resonates at various levels among underprivileged communities in God’s Own Country, writes Keli Ramachandran
🌳 Will the gods of the Hindu pantheon be reduced to singular narratives and used to polarise identities based on politics of Otherness? Asks Outlook Editor Chinki Sinha on attempts at appropriation of Shiva
💃 From the most benign to the most destructive, Lord Shiva remains a mystery who defies definition. Attempts to appropriate him may not succeed.
♑ We forget that Shiva is present in both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, crushing the arrogance of Ravan and humbling the privileged Arjun. This cannot be explained historically, writes noted author Devdutt Pattanaik
ඣ Ganeshwar, a PhD scholar with the Hyderabad University, tells us why Hindu nationalists will find it difficult to construct Shiva as the face of their aspirations in southern states
𒅌 For Y. S. Alone, the idea of Shiva as the God of Dalits and Adivasis is a misnomer, as they neither have any special spaces of worship nor are they part of Hindu rituals
꧒ According to scholars, the Lingayats are followers of Shiva in the form of Basava and reject practices like caste and gender discrimination, unlike the Veerashaivas, who accept the Vedic texts and practices like these, says Haima Deshpande
ꦇ As the Jharkhand government has failed to keep its promise to drop all cases against them, thousands of Adivasis accused of waging war against the Indian state feel cheated
🏅 In his incisive analysis, Peerzada Muzamil underlines the importance of focusing on ‘preventive and promotive healthcare’, apart from making accessible expensive medicare to the poor and most needy
🅷 Shiva resonates at various levels among underprivileged communities in God’s Own Country, writes Keli Ramachandran
⛎ Will the gods of the Hindu pantheon be reduced to singular narratives and used to polarise identities based on politics of Otherness? Asks Outlook Editor Chinki Sinha on attempts at appropriation of Shiva
ꦚ From the most benign to the most destructive, Lord Shiva remains a mystery who defies definition. Attempts to appropriate him may not succeed.
🗹 Academic and curator Alka Pande looks into the phenomenon and wonders who is Shiva? Is he a God? Is he a concept? Is he truth? Is he a representation of the phallus? Is he a destroyer? Is he the lord of dance?
♚ For Ram Manohar Lohia, Shiva was more than a mythical persona, ‘without birth and without end’, compassion incarnate, an ardent lover. Despite being an atheist, Lohia’s political imagination drew from stories around Shiva
ꦚ Muslim poets have waxed eloquent not only on Hindu festivals but also on Hindu deities like Shiva, as their poetry is about communal harmony and co-mingling of cultures, writes Rakhshanda Jalil
🍒 The recently held fashion week in Mumbai had mostly hideous and boring ramp shows barring a few designers like Rajesh Pratap
🥂 Kashi is the seat of learning, where people worship both Shiva and Ram (Shiva-Ram) in the hope of getting salvation
