{"id":3204,"date":"2003-06-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/06\/19\/2003-06-19-lord-nataraja-becoming-a-21st-century-global-icon\/"},"modified":"2003-06-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-19T12:00:00","slug":"2003-06-19-lord-nataraja-becoming-a-21st-century-global-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/06\/19\/2003-06-19-lord-nataraja-becoming-a-21st-century-global-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Nataraja Becoming a 21st Century Global Icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.the-week.com\/23jun22\/life2.htm\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 17, 2003: It was Fritjof Capra&#8217;s &#8220;Tao of Physics&#8221; that launched Lord Nataraja as a global icon. In his book Mr. Capra wrote the dance of Siva was &#8220;the dance of subatomic particles.&#8221; He was not the first in portraying Nataraja as a universal metaphor for the interface between science, spirituality, dance and art, but he definitely helped the idea to catch on. In the 1920&#8217;s the late art historian, Ananda Coomarasway, coined the now famous adage &#8220;The Cosmic Dance of Siva&#8221; to describe the Nataraja imagery, hailing the Nataraja icon as &#8220;poetry but nonetheless science.&#8221; Lord Nataraja has made it to the cover of Time Magazine and more recently been appropriated as the logo of a London-based global environmental movement. <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, June 17, 2003: It was Fritjof Capra&#8217;s &#8220;Tao of Physics&#8221; that launched Lord Nataraja as a global,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}