{"id":791,"date":"2022-10-04T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=791"},"modified":"2022-12-20T19:14:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:14:01","slug":"25-22-durga-puja-kolkata-celebrates-a-fierce-goddess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"#25-22 DURGA PUJA &#8230;\u00a0Kolkata celebrates a fierce Goddess"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Durga is a major Hindu Goddess, whose many powers include motherhood, war, and the destruction of all evil.&nbsp; Puja is a term for ceremonial worship. The 10-day Durga Puja celebrated in Kolkata, India, in September\/October, was recently inscribed by UNESCO in its list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.&nbsp; WINGS&#8217; producer in Kolkata, Kalpana Pradhan, interviewed women scholars and a woman priest about the history and changing sociology of Durga Puja. Once a private pleasure of the wealthy Hindus and their colonizers, it is now in the hands of organizations, politicians, and women who newly claim the right to officiate and drum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speakers:&nbsp;Social scientist Dr Bula Bhadra; Dr Ruby Sain, professor of the Centre for the study of Religion and Society; Sanskrit professor and woman priest Nandini Bhowmick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-25-22DurgaPuja-28_49-128kbps.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-25-22DurgaPuja-28_49-128kbps.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durga is a major Hindu Goddess, whose many powers include motherhood, war, and the destruction of all evil.&nbsp; Puja is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,4,9,39,150,152,36,42,155,60,53,65,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-all","category-archive","category-feminism","category-history","category-human-rights","category-politics","category-regional","category-religious-repression-opression","category-society-and-culture","category-south-asia","category-spirituality-and-religion","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}