Ep 207: Religion, Food, Indian Society
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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What's the Point of the Gunga Na?
The people whose narrative version of hinduism won out over the centuries were the people who lived in the gangetic plain. The endogami brought about by the gas system was a profound and mind blowing insight for me when i heard about it from waits an, an scientific fact. In india, as with many cultures, including russia, we have this iconic image of a bird with two heads facing in opposite directions. A we call it gundaberundanin inland, the south. And i think that idea of pavitita and gundagi is an excellent example of a two headed bird who is able to hold two contradictory ideas in your head.
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