Tag: Shiva

  • My Two Favorite Eco-Feminists

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    At the recent International Women’s Earth and Climate Initiative Summit, Jane Goodall and Vandana Shiva discuss their decades of work devoted to protecting nature and saving future generations from the dangers of climate change. A renowned primatologist, Goodall is best known for her groundbreaking work with chimpanzees and baboons. An environmental leader, feminist and thinker,…

  • Festival of Navratri Dedicated to Goddess Durga

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    In the BoldSky Blog, Sanchita Chowdry educates readers about the festival of Navratri and the Goddess Durga: The festival of Navratri is dedicated to the nine forms of Goddess Durga known as the Navadurga. Devi Durga is the form of Shakti or the Infinite Power. It is believed that She manifested Herself into nine divine…

  • Photo of the Day

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    Mumbai born, Brooklyn based photographer Manjari Sharma is on a mission to create contemporary photographs of ancient spiritual figures. The complex and colorful visual stylings, normally rendered from the depths of mythology and the imagination, take unprecedented physical shape before Sharma’s camera lens. Her photographs, composed from scratch, measure at a whopping six feet high, their grand…

  • Leaders of world sovereignty movement react to 2013 world food prize going to GMO scientists

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    Lappé and Shiva’s remarks echo those of the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance, which stated that the prize going to the biotech giants “sends precisely the wrong message about sustainable solutions to hunger and poverty.” “Never mind that Monsanto is a sponsor of the prize (and that the list of other backers reads like a who’s who of big ag…

  • Morya Morya (Deva Tuzya Dari Aalo)-Ajay Atul

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    Morya Gosavi was a 14th century saint of the Ganapatya sect. He was a great devotee of Ganesha. Although he is known by many other attributes, Ganesha’s elephant head makes him particularly easy to identify. Ganesha is widely revered as the Remover of Obstacles and more generally as the Lord of Beginnings and the Lord of Obstacles, patron of arts…