Marble is seen as an auspicious form to create idols in, hence white.' tweeted: 'Hinduism gives very little importance to the form and is all about the soul. Murugan is white, Ma Saraswati wears white.' wrote: 'Most idols in most temples globally are in the colour of the material they are created from. Another, wrote: 'Shiva-ji is dark, Krishna is black, Ram is blue, Vishnu is grey. are never light-skinned' one Twitter user, wrote. 'Goddess Kali, Krishna, Shiva, Ram and so many other gods are never light skinned! In fact in southern India so many goddesses like Mariyamma, Chamundeshwari etc. A larger number of Indians criticised Subramanya’s intervention, pointing out that Hindu gods are black, blue, yellow, red, white, and pink. 'That sense that God is white is something that, well, if you go into churches overseas you see a black Jesus or Chinese Jesus or Middle Eastern Jesus,' he said. Welby told BBC Radio 4 that the way the Western church portrays Jesus 'of course' needs to be thought about again. Very few Indians in real life are actually that fair.' Her tweet was sparked after the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, announced he would review statues of Jesus in Britain in response to US-based Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King telling his 1.2 million Twitter followers that all murals and stained glass windows of a white Jesus should 'come down'.

Commenting on the row, she tweeted: 'We must also ask why Hindu deities are so light skinned. LONDON: Indian economist and author Rupa Subramanya kicked up a storm on Twitter after wading into a debate raging in Britain on whether statues of Jesus should be white by bringing Hindu gods into the melee.

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