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EI Weekly Listen — The gods in love by Jessica Frazier

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Rada's Love

The story of rada and krishna can be traced through sanscrit myth to modern hindi village dramas. Poems and miniature paintings that can still be seen in the forts of the himalayas and rajastan depict wandering ascetics, lost messengers and nosy peacocks all stumbling across the two lovers. Tales of rada's love found their way into painting, statuary, drama and above all, into poetry. This celebration of erotic religious love did not arise out of the blue. It was the fruit of a millennium long intellectual struggle to counter the suspicion of material reality,.Pracriti maya, and human desire, kama trishna

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