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2021-04-23T13:49:13+05:30
Curator Alka Pande of the Visual Arts Gallery of the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, has written a book very close to her heart. On the acknowledgements page she writes, “This book is a divine gift. The belief in the divine has been ingrained in me ever since I can remember. It is the complete belief in the supreme energy that guides our lives—the Adi Shakti.” This very personal belief finds focus in the image of the goddess, Shakti. Pande sets out to map all the 51 peethas, or the sacred spaces, where the goddess abides over four countries: India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan.