Outlook - March 21, 2025

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The Pilgrim's Progress

Religious Itinerary

In India, religious tourism is not a new thing, but the upsurge is unprecedented, leading to a very evident mixing of religion and politics, where temple reconstruction is one of its features.

2 mins

Turn Right for Religion

Behind the obvious global rise in pilgrimage and religious tourism is not just the growing religiosity across societies, but also choices made by governments on the kind of infrastructure to develop. This trend has the backing of a market-driven push for commodification of faith and the Right-wing strategy of religion-based mass mobilisation

10+ mins

In Baba-Land

The advent of social media changed life in the sleepy town of Gadha, where a 28-year-old Dhirendra Krishna Garg aka Bageshwar Baba, has amassed an unbelievable following who believe he has supernatural powers

9 mins

Life is a Mela

Modern intellectuals are yet to appreciate the specialness of melas, a unique Indian cultural phenomenon

4 mins

The New Hindu Hub

From a backwater town to a religious tourism hotspot, Ayodhya’s transformation story has positives as well as negatives

6 mins

The Lord's City Sits on Sand

As the underwater search continues for relics from the mythical Dwarka of Lord Krishna submerged under the Arabian Sea, are ecological threats to the still- inhabited city on the Gujarat shore getting less attention than they deserve?

7 mins

Sacred Games

Pilgrims are being fast-tracked into 'spiritual tourists'. This places impossible demands on the vulnerable Himalayan region

6 mins

Sitakund

With Sitamarhi in Bihar included in the central government’s Ramayan Circuit list, Sita’s birthplace may finally get the same stature as Ram’s in Ayodhya

5 mins

Shopping With God

What is lost through the glitz that Mecca has acquired is the subtlety of the spiritual experience

6 mins

No Brotherhood, This

India's foreign policy initiatives in recent years have shown signs of giving in to pressure from the United States

7 mins

Piecemeal PEACE

Forget a ceasefire, the spat between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump at the White House has further complicated the situation, with Europe seeking to put a spanner in Trump's plans for a peace deal

5 mins

The Chak De! Gang

Unconditional love for the sport and systemic support have resulted in Jharkhand turning into a nursery of hockey players, especially for tribal girls

7 mins

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