{"id":155,"date":"2018-06-13T15:06:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T19:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grad.journalism.torontomu.ca\/womensspaces\/?page_id=155"},"modified":"2018-06-18T18:04:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T22:04:59","slug":"keka-dasgupta","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grad.journalism.torontomu.ca\/womensspaces\/keka-dasgupta\/","title":{"rendered":"Keka DasGupta"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”186″ add_caption=”yes” alignment=”right”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_align=”alignleft”]In Hindu communities, whether men and women worship separately <\/em>will vary by temple. At ISKON Toronto, there are three altars where members worship. Men are usually on the left, women on the right, and there\u2019s a mix in the middle.<\/em><\/p>\n

When I was young, I would be dancing and singing on the right side with all the girls. Now as a mom with two boys, I will sometimes be in the middle. I’m not going to go stand on the left side with the guys\u2014my husband can\u2014but I’ll be in the middle with my sons and with other men. That\u2019s really my habit. I’ve always started on the right. I don\u2019t think it has to do with comfort, because if I’m here by Krishna, I have no discomfort anywhere. If anything, when I come to the left altar, I don\u2019t really stay long because I\u2019m used to being on the right.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column height=”full_height” width=”1\/2″]

\"When I was young, all the girls would be dancing and singing on the right side. Now as a mom with two boys, I will sometimes be in the middle. \"<\/blockquote>Keka DasGupta<\/span><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”188″ add_caption=”yes” alignment=”right”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]But I don\u2019t feel like there are any boundaries or barriers. My family will come in together and then my husband will go to the right by force of habit and I will go to the left. A lot of the time, he stays on the guys\u2019 side and I\u2019m on the girls\u2019 side. We\u2019re not sitting beside each other. And then 8 o\u2019clock arati comes and then my husband\u2019s beside me and the kids are beside me.<\/p>\n

When I went to India at about age 10, I saw in some of the ISKON temples the men would be up at the front and the women were relegated to the back. That pissed me off. When I returned to Toronto, my relationship with space in the temple here made me feel like I was free and Krishna was accessible to me, and that nobody\u2019s putting an artificial barrier between me and god.<\/p>\n

Keka DasGupta
\nMember of ISKON Toronto<\/p>\n

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