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Against the backdrop of a foggy evening sky, calm h2o and a silhouetting Prakasam Barrage, radical listened to the speakers successful rapt attraction arsenic the second spoke astir the taste past of Andhra Pradesh and improvement of colony goddesses successful the State.
The lecture was fixed during a two-hour cruise connected the Krishna stream connected Thursday (December 4), arsenic portion of the programme ‘Know Your Heritage-Culture Cruise’, organised by the Vijayawada Chapter of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH). Around 60 radical took part.
The speakers, authors Vadrevu China Veerabhadrudu and Sree Padma Holt, talked astir the conception of colony goddesses successful A.P., however they person been reimagined and interpreted by devotees implicit the years with changing times and however they were yet incorporated into Shaiva, Vaishnava and different content systems.
Tracing the root of Goddess Kanaka Durga, Padma Holt, an pedagogue and researcher who taught successful Bowdoin University, the U.S., talked astir however the goddess is an amalgamation of galore forms and was a grama devata astatine first, past a tribal goddess, past she was worhipped arsenic the destroyer of the evil and protector of the radical earlier being worshipped successful the contiguous form.
After its motorboat successful October, the Vijayawada Chapter of INTACH planned 3 ‘Know Your Heritage’ programmes to bring like-minded radical connected a level and stock their cognition with others. The remaining 2 events would beryllium held successful the adjacent 2 months.
INTACH Convenor Sai Papineni said they person besides planned Sunday huddles, which would beryllium organised astatine humanities sites successful Vijayawada. “The intent is to pass the nationalist astir our past and to instrumentality practice to people. We are starting practice clubs successful schools and are successful interaction with colleges to get youngsters to lend to practice conservation,” Mr. Papineni said.
