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Goddess Kali in New York Neuberger Museum of Art Exhibition and the Unnecessary Controversy

Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase in New York is currently exhibiting paintings under the title “British Subjects: Identity and Self-Fashioning 1967 – 2009.” A painting by Sutapa Biswas titled ‘Housewives with Steak-Knives’ is being identified with Goddess Kali and a controversy has started over the painting. Rajan Zed, president of Universal Society of Hinduism, and Bhavna Shinde, of Forum for Hindu Awakening, have started a campaign to remove it from the exhibition and states that the painting amounts to irreverence and trivialization of the sacred deity, Goddess Kali. I feel this is an unnecessary controversy. On the Goddess Kali Rajan Zed, president of Universal Society of Hinduism, said she was “highly revered in Hinduism and she was meant to be worshipped in temples and not to be used indecorously.” Kali is looked at as being the Goddess of time and change, as well as personifying divine energy. Zed’s claims are that disrespecting Hinduism by misinterpreting and deformi

Ekadasi Tithi Calculator – Software to Find the Exact Time of Ekadashi Fasting in Your Country

Ekadasi Tithi and Time in India will not be same as that of United States and that of Singapore . Each country has a different time for Ekadashi fasting. To calculate the Ekadasi time in your region you need to know the following facts – 1) time difference from India and your present residing country. 2) You need to know the sunrise time in your country. The Ekadasi calculator and the software is provided by Sri Ahobila Mutt. You can calculate the Ekadasi time in your region here at the official website of Sri Ahobila Mutt . You may also like to read Ekadasi Dates in 2010