Mohan Guruswamy | The God business is good business all across India
Published : Apr 24, 2021, 12:00 am IST
Updated : Apr 24, 2021, 12:00 am IST
Religion is now, not just increasingly a part of our politics, but also, and even more so, of our economics
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There has been a palpable rise in religiosity all across the country, evidenced by the visible accretion of places of worship and with it an aggressive assertion of identity either by appearance, statues, processions and loud calls to worship and music. This should worry us. The US National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends Report finds a co-relationship between religiosity and poverty. It found an inverse relationship in countries where the percentage of people who prayed daily was high and low per capita GDP. Clearly, if you are too obsessed by damnation, you are condemned to live it here and now!