Gyanesh Mohan's blog

                                     A FEW HUNGRY DOGS “ Do you think we’d have been better off in Ayodhya of Ram which these humans so wistfully talk about as if it was yesterday? Do you really think we’d have experienced the Ramrajya in all its glory or it’d have been just another era for us?” asked one with brooding eyes. “ I don’t really know. It seems like a loaded question but I don’t delve on these questions – foraging for food leaves me little time, you know,” replied another with sleepy eyes. “ Not that I have any first hand experience or even a tell-tale account of that era, I could tell you for sure that our situation in any era would have been a function of who we were owned by. Or if we were not, it’d depend on how the maste...

            UTILITARIANISM AND RELIGION In the age of utilitarianism one wonders as to the customs and rituals one has to put up with. The way religion was depicted as very personal in 3 idiots and OMG, and also voiced its dissent to its commercialisation, one has to understand that its commercialisation crops from the very same utilitarianism. No temple was found in the excavations of harappan civilisation and similarly there exists in India the tendency to worship in open spaces - a tree, a stone,  a river, a lake, the sky,  the sun,  the moon, the birds, the animals, and sometimes even a few humans who seem to have transcended the limits of human mind. Temples cropped from the desire to settle down as against roaming around and preaching about the philosophy of life (from the necessity to care for old priests in their old age and to provide a shelter during unfavorable weather. It would also have been desirable that the village or co...