Word: ganesha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan on writing a quick letter to my aunt in India, asking her to send me some bhindis for my forehead, some heavy gold jewelry, and a few wall-hangings of Ganesha and Krishna for my dorm room. If you lack any Indian connections to help you furnish your digs, light some incense and you'll be fine...
...behind a number of bottles of liquor. A large statue of a dancing Shiva stands in the midst of the dance floor; a scantily clad man wearing a mask with three heads (apparently representing Lord Brahma) dances erotically on a pedestal. Finally, a statue of Lord Ganesha--the same deity that Hindus install at the entrance of their holy places--beckons people into the club...
...from which it ultimately derives, Cambodian art is quite restricted in its range of subject: there isn't the same bewildering pullulation of different gods. In Cambodia the same cast recurs again and again: the Buddha in his various forms; the main Hindu deities: Shiva, Vishnu, the elephant god Ganesha and so forth. And there is very little of the eroticism of Indian sculpture: bare breasts and torsos, but no full nudes, and no copulation...
...Ganesh, at the Manhattan Theatre Club, McNally sends two American women to India because they "heard it could heal" and has them face troubling truths about the cancer of prejudice and privilege inside the nicest people. Guided by the cheerful Hindu god Ganesha, the women learn to recognize the illness and -- not to cure it, but something harder -- to live with...
...audience knows it is in for an offbeat experience as soon as the first character appears, sporting an elephant's head. This is Ganesha, the Hindu god who embodies childish playfulness, zest for life and prankish humor. During the course of almost three hours, he appears in countless guises across a tourist's landscape of India, as a Japanese husband and later his wife, as a street peddler, a beggar and a leper, not to mention moments of high-spirited invisibility when he is simply a god. He attaches himself to two suburban American matrons, old enough to be grandmothers...