Does prayer have a language? If you pray to idols and have acquired one with a silver finish recently, most likely it has come from Italy. There is a $500m dollar per annum business in these gods. That is not taking into account the idols of Indian gods coming in from China and Thailand. The idols from Italy are priced higher than those from Asia. Traditionally Gods have been a big business opportunity in India. Now these Indian Gods are helping the economy of other countries while a few Indians are unaware what happens to their prayers.
In India these days, all prayers for rain are held up somewhere and delivered to God at the same time. Then we have the floods. We all pray. Once again all messages of deliverance reach God at once resulting in drought.
Like we need onions from Pakistan do we need Gods from Italy? This may sound ironic for those who take sides in politics. Hold on, we all live with politics day in and day out. It is another matter our politicians these days indulge in exchange of abuses rather than ideas or opinions! They are not talking Italian as yet. But we have (at least some of us) been conversing in the sweet tongue of Urdu. We all enjoy shayaris as we do the Pakistani onions. But Italian Gods…albeit of Indian pedigree. Wait …is that right? Or is it the other way around?
Can we say Gods are Gods like onions are onions…we need them both, from where ever?
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