“A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs, from a sculptured column in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first pair at the foot of the ambrosial tree, and a serpent entwined among the heavily-laden boughs, presenting to them some of the fruit from his mouth.” FirstsTreeFeetAtheismMouthsIndiaSouthFruitPositive AtheismDrawingTemplesPairsCavesColumnsPresentingSerpentColonelsEntwined Author:Godfrey Higgins
“Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.” MindHugeIndiaWaveSymbolsTemplesNationalismFlagsWetSecularCementDams Author:Arundhati Roy
“School can become a temple of learning only when the student, the guardian, and the society, in harmony, endeavor to make it a place of pursuit for education, a sadhana; where the spring of punctuality, sanctity and thirst for knowledge flows.” SchoolEducationStudentsSpringFlowIndiaHarmonyPursuitTemplesEndeavorThirstGuardianSanctityPunctualityThirst For Knowledge Author:Narendra Modi
“India is a culture in which religious life and spirituality is very much on the surface of things. That doesn't mean it doesn't have depth, but it is very visible. There are lots of temples, lots of Islamic centers, lots of gurdwaras, and lots of teachers.” MeanCultureSpiritualityReligiousTeacherIndiaDepthSurfaceVisibleIslamicTemplesReligious Life Author:Diana L. Eck
“The religious rightwingism is directly linked to globalization and to privatization. When India is talking about selling its entire power sector to foreign multinationals, when the political climate gets too hot and uncomfortable, the government will immediately start saying, should we build a Hindu temple on the site of the Babri mosque? Everyone will go baying off in that direction. It's a game.” ShouldGovernmentPoliticalGamesReligiousTalkingIndiaHotClimateSellingUncomfortableTemplesSiteLinkedGlobalizationMosquesMultinationalsPrivatization Author:Arundhati Roy
“Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is a shining example of how to serve your masters with absolute fidelity, love, and devotion. These are the kinds of gods they have foisted on us Mr. Jiabao. Understand, now, how hard it is for a man to win his freedom in India.” KnowsMenKindHardWinningExampleMastersWorshipIndiaAbsolutesShiningDevotionFaithfulServantTemplesDo You KnowFidelityRamaFaithful ServantsHanuman Book:The White Tiger Source: The White Tiger
“I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.” ThinkingWorldFeelsHappenedCenturyTerribleUnderstoodIndiaAncientDestroyedTemplesRealisingWoundedInvasionCivilisationOld World Author:V. S. Naipaul