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Event Description: BOOK DISCUSSION - The Reluctant Family Man – Shiva In Everyday Life, by Nilima Chitgopekar
Shiva – The One In Whom The Ascetic And The Householder Merge
He’s the destroyer of evil, the pervasive one in whom all things lie. He is brilliant, terrifying, wild and beneficent. He is both an ascetic and a householder, both a yogi and a guru. He encompasses the masculine and the feminine, the powerful and the graceful, The Tandava and the Laasya, the darkness and the light, the divine and the human.
What can we learn from this bundle of contradictions, this dreadlocked yogi? How does he manage the devotions and duties of a father, husband and man of the house, and the demands and supplications of a clamorous cosmos?
Dr Nilima Chitgopekar, the author of seven books, is an Associate Professor at the Jesus & Mary College, Delhi University. She has lectured widely overseas, most recently at Harvard University and has had fellowships in Oxford University and several other universities. Dr Chitgopekar articulates her own interpretation to age-old mythology. Her endeavour in her lectures, writings and even in her online films, is to communicate the intricacies and complexities within Hinduism simply, yet without compromising on the wonderful ambivalences that exist within it.
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The Reluctant Family Man – Shiva In Everyday Life, by Nilima Chitgopekar
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