Both Riyas Komu and Tyeb Mehta have given pieces: Mr Komu offers a steel sculpture reddened by car paint, estimated at $12,000-18,000 12,000-18,000sents a forbidding green, black and white iMrge of the Goddess Kali, transforMehtarom a local deity into a universal image of strife, estimated at $400,000-600,000 (presents).
Kali, who is variously characterised as a flickering black tongue or black giantess standing on the corpse of her consort Shiva, is the most feared Hindu deity.
Kali, ( Sanskrit: "She Who Is Black" or "She Who Is Death") in Hinduism, goddess of time, doomsday, and death, or the black goddess (the feminine form of Sanskrit kala, "time-doomsday-death" or "black").
A third opinion traces it to the Bengali words for lime (calcium oxide; kali) and burnt shell (kata), since the area was noted for the manufacture of shell lime.
Thus, the gods were given consorts Lakshmi (or Shri) for Vishnu; Parvati, Kali, and Durga for Shiva and ritual was directed toward the worship of the mother goddess.
Important Hindu Bengali holidays include the annual festivals devoted to various Hindu deities, most notably Shiva, Kali, Durga, Lakshmi, and Sarasvati.
Like much else, Kali-Horvath explains, the problems in Gyongyospata owe their origins to Communism, and what happened after it collapsed.
"Milking the system became a survival strategy," says Kali-Horvath.
Kali-Horvath turns out to have an amazing life story.
It's Kalman Kali-Horvath, the official from the Ministry of Justice who accompanies us to Gyongyospata, who helps me to understand the situation better.
The police, according to Kali-Horvath, adopted an attitude of disinterest towards Romany crime.
