A few days back on Mahashivratri, i had a strong desire to go to the temple, shielding my guilt of not stopping by to any for almost a month now and missing my daily prayers since the time i entered my new abode. Blaming it to getting accustomed to the routine sked and skipping my negligence to bow in front of my God, at times which is reduced barely to lighting an evening aggarbatti.
So this big day of Lord Shiva, i wanted to make to one of the temples in town. Me and Kunal headed for one, somewhere in outskirts of gurgaon. (Phew! Every other place appears as if you are in outskirts, Courtesy- The always under construction sites and dug up roads in the city!)
We started and spotted one, not too far off from our place there stood a secluded one. At the front gate - a long queue of the people. Awww...i was staggered as such rush had been manifested only outside those big, esteemed and eminent temples where people come from far off places to pay their greetings. So averting the idea of ‘be-queued’ and waiting, we decided to head for an alternative. After whirling for a while and frisking for some 'pooja place' amidst those multi-storeyed buildings and sky scrappers, at a short distance we encountered another. This visaged more like a shack than a temple.
I was appalled at the fact that this IT savvy town, fondly called by the locales as 'Bharat ka America,' where one stumbles upon every other building rimmed with shine and surroundings engulfed with those glassy towers, it irked me to see not a single religious place with the basic amenities demanded by a piece of architecture. Temples here are more of the temporary set ups in dingy lanes. (Well, I am not sure of old gurgaon side as I have never been towards that part of the city, so writing about the place which I checked.)
Have the MNC galore and malling mania among the so called 'Hi-Tech' crowd of the city faded the need of going to a place where we can sit and find peace? Alas! The temples in Gurgaon appear as a mere obligation where one can perform one's contemporary rituals… How i wish to find some day a glittery one with lights and big idols of all the Gods decked up with garlands and shining ornaments. And there comes the chanting of bhajans from all sides....purifying the aura of this muddy-land!
So this big day of Lord Shiva, i wanted to make to one of the temples in town. Me and Kunal headed for one, somewhere in outskirts of gurgaon. (Phew! Every other place appears as if you are in outskirts, Courtesy- The always under construction sites and dug up roads in the city!)
We started and spotted one, not too far off from our place there stood a secluded one. At the front gate - a long queue of the people. Awww...i was staggered as such rush had been manifested only outside those big, esteemed and eminent temples where people come from far off places to pay their greetings. So averting the idea of ‘be-queued’ and waiting, we decided to head for an alternative. After whirling for a while and frisking for some 'pooja place' amidst those multi-storeyed buildings and sky scrappers, at a short distance we encountered another. This visaged more like a shack than a temple.
I was appalled at the fact that this IT savvy town, fondly called by the locales as 'Bharat ka America,' where one stumbles upon every other building rimmed with shine and surroundings engulfed with those glassy towers, it irked me to see not a single religious place with the basic amenities demanded by a piece of architecture. Temples here are more of the temporary set ups in dingy lanes. (Well, I am not sure of old gurgaon side as I have never been towards that part of the city, so writing about the place which I checked.)
Have the MNC galore and malling mania among the so called 'Hi-Tech' crowd of the city faded the need of going to a place where we can sit and find peace? Alas! The temples in Gurgaon appear as a mere obligation where one can perform one's contemporary rituals… How i wish to find some day a glittery one with lights and big idols of all the Gods decked up with garlands and shining ornaments. And there comes the chanting of bhajans from all sides....purifying the aura of this muddy-land!
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But why are you compalining only about temples...there can be a lot of stuff to complain and get angry about in Gurgaon. For example, safe public transport, electricity :-).
Looks like they have just created this big IT crazy city without any basic planning...
Waiting to hear your comments on this too..
samira i think india needs more gud hospitals and schools wid basic amminties rather than shiny temples,as dere already hundreds of thousand every corner of dis country