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...Outside, wooden boats lined the river, their noses pointed towards the grey Wadden Sea, the world’s largest expanse of intertidal mudflats. Then the herring arrived....
...They associate the animals with Shiva, god of wild things, clad in leopard skin....
...Tourists in our group — a few Americans, seven Brits and the rest Indians — aim digital glowing screens, catching the tomb’s cloud-grey image in the long reflecting pool. A bird caws....
...“Asia is becoming an increasingly important market for Iranian art,” says Shiva Balaghi, a Middle East scholar....
...If Shiva answers her prayers, the offering becomes real.” I must have looked unconvinced, because he continued....
...These days, most Dubai cabs know how to get you to Alserkal Avenue,” says Shiva Balaghi, a visiting scholar at Brown University, Rhode Island, who curated the inaugural exhibition at Leila Heller Gallery...
...This is useful to know when one considers that Kornerup’s Dancing Shiva necklaces — made of ruby, sapphire and tsavorite beads — cost from €33,700 a piece....
...Shiva Balaghi, a visiting scholar at Brown University in Rhode Island, has organised a retrospective of Tanavoli’s work, which opens next week at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Massachusetts....
...about him as a personality – a decisive personality that has so much force that it is going to break the incapacity of the last 10 years,” says Dheeraj Sinha, chief strategy officer for South Asia for Grey...
...Legend has it that Shiva protected the world from Ganga’s destructive power when the cosmic waters fell to earth by releasing the streams gently through his hair....
...Shiva later took up residence on the peak above the lake with Sati’s reincarnation, the Goddess Parvati. There the two made love for long eternities....
...in praise of Shiva as they rushed their offerings to the Harihar Nath, the fair’s central temple. Bodies thickened around us....
...There are windows from a synagogue, a rug facing Mecca and, in the hallway, a statue of Lord Shiva....
...She wears indigo-blue tights and strappy grey suede shoes brightened with a little inset band of gold....
...However, a question mark still hangs over the top lot, a 10th-century Khmer bronze showing the goddess Shiva, which almost doubled its high estimate, making €739,352....
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