{"id":18232,"date":"2019-12-27T15:58:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T10:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=18232"},"modified":"2019-12-27T16:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T11:12:24","slug":"ltv-cultural-event-pondicherry-december-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/ltv-cultural-event-pondicherry-december-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"LTV Cultural Event, Pondicherry &#8211; December 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 16<sup>th<\/sup>\nDecember 2019, FSL-India, Pondicherry\u2019s coordinator organised a Cultural Event\n(CE) for our regular LTV volunteers. Every month, we organise a cultural event\nfor our regular volunteers and we take them to any cultural and historical\nplaces which are located in and around Pondicherry. This\nmonth, the Cultural Event was focused on Religion, the Nataraja temple and\nThillai Kaali, at Chidambaram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CE-Blog-Pondicherry-December-2019-5-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18236\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nataraja Temple, also referred to as the Chidambaram Nataraja temple or Thillai Nataraja temple, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Nataraja \u2013 Shiva, as the lord of dance \u2013 in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India. The temple has mythical roots and a Shiva shrine existed at the site when the town was known as Thillai. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CE-Blog-Pondicherry-December-2019-4-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18235\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chidambaram, the name of the city and the temple literally means &#8220;atmosphere of wisdom&#8221; or &#8220;clothed in thought&#8221;, the temple architecture symbolises the connection between the arts and spirituality, creative activity and the divine. The temple wall carvings display all the 108 karanas from the Natya Shastra by Bharata Muni, and these postures form the foundation of Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CE-Blog-Pondicherry-December-2019-2-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18233\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CE-Blog-Pondicherry-December-2019-8-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18239\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thillai Kali Temple, Chidambaram is on the outskirts of the city of Chidambaram. Legend says that Goddess Kaali Devi moved here after losing to Lord Siva in the celestial dance contest. It was an argument about who is superior, either &#8216;Sivam&#8217; (Lord Siva) or Shakthi (Parvathi). In order to resolve this, they performed a dance program at Chidambaram in front of Lord Vishnu, Lord Brahma and other deities. While they were dancing, Lord Siva was about to be defeated. Then, Siva assumed a dance posture which could not be played by women, due to which he won the contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CE-Blog-Pondicherry-December-2019--768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18240\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nthe morning, FSL-India&#8217;s coordinator and the volunteers started their travel\nfrom the meeting point to the place of the cultural event.&nbsp; In the\nbeginning, the Coordinator explained about the activities. Then, she took the 3\nvolunteers to Nataraja Temple and Thillai Kaali. FSL-India\u2019s Coordinator\nexplained to them about each place to the volunteer. After the visit, FSL India\u2019s\ncoordinator and our volunteers had lunch and discussed about their experiences\nin the host families and projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CE-Blog-Pondicherry-December-2019-6-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18237\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Some feedback:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The cultural\nevent was very interesting, we had a good time in Chidambaram<\/li><li>Lord Shiva worshipped\nas Natraja, King of Dance &nbsp;and many pillared\nhalls are attractive<\/li><li>The amazing part\nis inside the temple, where people are praying and real life<\/li><li>The famous Cosmic\nDancer and historical temple in Nataraja temple in Tamil Nadu. Very good pilgrimage\ntemple<\/li><li>I felt really\nrefreshed during this cultural event<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CE-Blog-Pondicherry-December-2019-3-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18234\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 16th December 2019, FSL-India, Pondicherry\u2019s coordinator organised a Cultural Event (CE) for our regular LTV volunteers. Every month, we organise a cultural event for our regular volunteers and we take them to any cultural and historical places which are located in and around Pondicherry. This month, the Cultural Event was focused on Religion, the Nataraja temple and Thillai Kaali, at Chidambaram. The Nataraja Temple, also referred to as the Chidambaram Nataraja temple or Thillai Nataraja temple, is a Hindu&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/ltv-cultural-event-pondicherry-december-2019\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":18238,"comment_status":"Closed","ping_status":"Closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[438,429],"tags":[1103,1055,1104,1065,1209,1102,1062,1174],"class_list":["post-18232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-event-pondicherry","category-ltv-bangalore","tag-fslindia","tag-guidestarindia","tag-indiancuisine","tag-indianculture","tag-indianhostfamily","tag-indiantemples","tag-indiantradition","tag-interculturalexchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18242,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18232\/revisions\/18242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}