Durga is coming. Clay idols are imagining her. Conch shells, Dhaak, Dhuno and vermilion are being brought out to create a worthy haze of magic for her welcome. Soon mantras will evoke the devotee to bow in surrender. Women will have their potential dolled up in pandals on every street corner.
To make a man worship a woman, she needs to bring out a goddess from within. It is not altogether difficult either. Every woman has a goddess. Feel superior, externalise focussed power, ooze confidence, command attention, destroy his ego, take over,protect, overwhelm.
But what if she did not want any of that. What if she wanted to be one with the earth; flow quietly with water,dissolve in the mist? Can she be honoured still or only petted? What is the logic of male emotion? More pertinently does it mirror God's own? Is He really a man?
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