“The woman is smarter than the man in every way,” crooned Harry Belafonte, a realisation that dawned on us since the advent of Ma Durga. Is there a single male deity who smilingly slays demons, wields weapons, sits atop a lion even while accompanying kids look on in wide eyed admiration at ten-armed multi-tasking mom with dad nowhere in sight?
The Indian nation has already been declared as our mata and now with big victories of Mamata Banerjee in Bengal and Jayalalithaa in Tamil Nadu, Indian democracy too is clearly another devi in the making. With didis and mothers like Mamata and Jayalalithaa no wonder the great Indian family is becoming infected with the rise of the Bharat matas. Of course Read More
