Nandini is the priestess at the helm of ‘Shubham Astu’, a group of female priests who have been crashing gender stereotypes and the patriarchy, in their own graceful and harmonious way. That’s exactly what we are doing,” said Nandini Bhowmik, to The Better India. And, it is the responsibility of the priests to help them understand.
The couples of this generation are asking questions about what and why they do in rituals. “The knowledge in our scriptures cannot stay hidden behind an ancient language. Their only motto-reintroduce the culture and heritage of India to the younger generation sans the orthodoxy, ambiguity or inequality. Instead, it had a group of women, gracefully chanting the scriptures in Bengali amid some of Tagore’s most melodious songs. To begin with, there was no male purohit draped in a white dhoti, proudly holding the ‘ yagnopawitha,’ the holy thread, wound around his body while chanting Vedic verses in Sanskrit. But, we are talking about one which wasn’t.
This is the typical imagery of a Hindu Bengali wedding. In the midst of a rising cloud of ‘ yagna‘ smoke, the ‘ Ulu Dhwani‘ reaches its crescendo amidst the chanting of shlokas (verses).
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