REVIVAL AND REDISCOVERY OF ANCIENT RELIGIOUS CULTS IN 21ST CENTURY;
'THE ENDURING APPEAL OF SHIVA LIES IN THE POWER AND EROTICISM THAT HE EMBODIES;
Shiva has always been hot,but i must confess that i was surprised-pleasantly surprised -to learn that he is now also cool,at least among young people in India.And not just cool,but chic,fashionable.Young people of both sexes are wearing rudrakshas as accessories,dancing to Shiva music ,indulging in Shiva tattoos,reading Shiva fiction.Some of them,it is rumoured,are even consuming bhang,as Shiva does.Where will all this end.Will the bright things in their rudrakshas also starting wearing freshly bloody elephant skins and use live snakes to hold up their jeans.Will they stop combing their hair,or wear dreadlocks.The mind does boggle.'
[Windy Doniger, American Indologist,author of -'Shiva;the erotic Ascetic'].
'THE ENDURING APPEAL OF SHIVA LIES IN THE POWER AND EROTICISM THAT HE EMBODIES;
Shiva has always been hot,but i must confess that i was surprised-pleasantly surprised -to learn that he is now also cool,at least among young people in India.And not just cool,but chic,fashionable.Young people of both sexes are wearing rudrakshas as accessories,dancing to Shiva music ,indulging in Shiva tattoos,reading Shiva fiction.Some of them,it is rumoured,are even consuming bhang,as Shiva does.Where will all this end.Will the bright things in their rudrakshas also starting wearing freshly bloody elephant skins and use live snakes to hold up their jeans.Will they stop combing their hair,or wear dreadlocks.The mind does boggle.'
[Windy Doniger, American Indologist,author of -'Shiva;the erotic Ascetic'].
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