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...front of the room, under a hanging portrait of the god Shiva that Eck borrowed from the Fogg Museum, the students set up an altar to display silver figures of the three gods most associated with the festival—Lakshmi, Sarasvati and Durga—as well as candles, fresh flowers and plates of nuts...
Amit S. Patel ’07 sat on a rug tapping the tabla, a pair of Indian drums. Patel accompanied Om L. Lala ’06 and Rajiv Venkataramanan ’08 as they sang a bhajan to Shiva, a song they had learned while children in the same Hindu Saturday school. As the beat got faster, the whole room clapped along in rhythm...
...Murder on the Leviathan (Random House; 223 pages) begins with 10 of them: the entire household of one Lord Littleby has been slaughtered by means of mysterious injections, and Littleby's skull has been bashed in. To add insult to injury, his precious golden statue of the Hindu god Shiva has been stolen. Akunin is the pen name of a Russian academic whose mysteries--all starring stuttering, downy-cheeked young detective Erast Fandorin--are wildly popular in his country and are just catching on here...
...Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses, say Indian authorities. Relics listed in Christie's catalogs that police say were taken by Ghia included a 2.6-ft. sandstone frieze with an estimated value of $200,000 to $300,000 and a 2.7-ft. statue of the Hindu god Shiva. A Jain statue that was reported stolen on Oct. 7, 1999, turned up as Lot 135 in a Sotheby's September 2000 catalog...
That they wear those sadly nicked shirts for every day of the shiva, the week-long Jewish custom of sitting mourning, only enhances my impression this all is an endless sentence of undeserved punishment, that time is on a hideously repetitive loop...