On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > Get thee behind me, Satan! > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/07/world/asia/07iht-currents.html [snip] > market. The famous Hindu temple in Tirupati, in southern India, now > has a regular idol-viewing tour and a V.I.P. one, for those who pay. > Even as new nightclubs bring rope-line culture to India, many also > sell premium memberships that let you skip the line and walk in.
Hmm comparison of jumping queues in nightclubs and temples in successive lines. Tirupati has always struck me as being in the forefront of crass commercialisation of people's (misplaced ?) faith. Maybe god wants special privileges for the moneyed :). -- Vinayak
