Bengal: Nadia couple worships eight-year-old daughter as Lakshmi to protest violence against women

Krishnagar, Oct 25 (UNI) As Bengal continues to grapple with a succession of horrific crimes against women and children, a migrant worker couple in Nadia's India-Bangladesh border village of Shivnibas has turned a Lakshmi Puja into a quiet but pointed social protest - worshipping their eight-year-old daughter as the goddess instead of an earthen idol and praying for an end to rape, murder and child abuse. On Kojagari Lakshmi Purnima, when households across Bengal invoke the goddess for wealth and prosperity, Debashis Biswas and his wife Lakshmi placed their daughter Shruti at the centre of their worship. Dressed as Goddess…