{"id":20471,"date":"2024-01-23T03:31:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T03:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=20471"},"modified":"2024-01-23T03:31:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T03:31:36","slug":"lord-siva-dances-into-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2024\/01\/23\/lord-siva-dances-into-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Siva Dances into Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KAUAI, HAWAII, January 19, 2024 (Hinduism Today): Nataraja kept inspiring us to complete 30 months\u2019 work in just six months.\u201d That\u2019s how Govind Mohan of the Indian government\u2019s Ministry of Culture described their commissioning of a 27-foot-tall sculpture of God Siva as Lord of Dance to be installed in time for the G-20 Summit of global economic leaders held September 9\u201310, 2023. Weighing about 18 tons, it reposes in front of the new, iconic, elliptical Bharat Mandapam exhibition and convention center where the leaders gathered. They marveled at this artistic depiction of India\u2019s \u201cessence of unity, strength and grace.\u201d <br><br>See photos of the creation of the world\u2019s tallest Nataraja at source.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/magazine\/january-february-march-2024\/lord-siva-dances-into-delhi\/\n\">https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/magazine\/january-february-march-2024\/lord-siva-dances-into-delhi\/<br><\/a><br>Download the entire January issue  in PDF: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hinduism-Today-January-February-March-2024-smaller.pdf\">https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Hinduism-Today-January-February-March-2024-smaller.pdf<\/a><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAUAI, HAWAII, January 19, 2024 (Hinduism Today): Nataraja kept inspiring us to complete 30 months\u2019 work in just six months.\u201d,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20487,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20471\/revisions\/20487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}