...of Supermarket Temples, Levitating saadhus and Blatant Disregard for Construction and Land Use Norms
The Akshardham temple : Either you are one of those who has seen it, or you are one of those who missed out - For it is a spectacle like none other.
or as I like to call it, "The Disneyland of Hinduism"
A quick primer on the temple.... Location: Nodia Mor, East Delhi.
- It is positively huge. The parking lot is probably as big as some of the islands in Indonesia.
- It bright, and always lit up, just like your friendly neighbourhood drug addict.
Yes, the Akshardham is unique. In fact, a bit too unique. Perhaps the levitating saadhus hadn't envisioned a few alternative uses for the temple, but here are a few to help them out. Jai Ho
1. The Lights.
When an kid sitting in Jaipur goes, "The temple is blinding my eyes", you know there are far too many lights.
I'm thinking maybe, we could use the place as Delhi's next international airport... Hey, its already got the lights and the parking space... All we need now are duty free booze shops and Nigerian drug peddlers.
2. The Water.
When your high school geography teacher takes you on a class trip to the Akshardham temple to show you, streams, creeks, brooks, rindles, rivulets, tides, torrents and fucking river deltas - then trust me, there is far TOO MUCH WATER, smack in the middle of a dry riverbed.
Maybe if the DJB (Delhi Jal Board) tapped this water, Delhi would finally get those alcohol distilleries its been hankering for all this time.....
3. Multiple square miles of parking.
Miles and miles of Parking? In Delhi? Are you sure? ... What are all those surrounding lights for? That's right, its a Cricket stadium.
(and God is right next door... the Indian team can't possibly lose again).... Can it ?
Can you add to the list? ... Comment.
--Refrences:
- "Killing Delhi's lifeline", An article on encroachment on the Yamuna bed [link] [alternate]
- "The monstrous Akshardham temple, aggressively encroaches on public space by flouting all rules" [Hindu, Nov, 2003]
- "It is worth mentioning that the Master Plan has been violated far more systematically and ruthlessly by the rich and the powerful and the government itself than by anybody else. The entire Asiad 82 infrastructure, including stadia, hotels, flyovers etc. were built in violation of the Master Plan. Thousands of farmhouses encircling Delhi are again violations of the Plan. From Akshardham temple to the Metro Rail Depot to even the Secretariat of the Delhi Government- all these are violations" [link]
- And this rant would be incomplete without one by Carlin. "No God, transcript" [link]
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4 comments:
All I will say is that "The Cynical Consultant has perhaps had quite a lot of the drugs that he talks about or that he is just another of those losers who has nothing better to do than spew filth with every utterance. Nay, even filth is too good a word for the likes of him.
Hey man get out of the sewer that you are living in and smell the fresh air for a change.....get a life!!!!
Well excuse me for being blunt about the whole matter.
But I have a problem when a structure like this is built with total disregard for land use norms and the (by now) famous Delhi Master Plan. If you'd get off your moralistic high horse for a second and look around, you would see thousands of innocent traders being evicted in the name of this very Master Plan....
Shouldnt the temple also come under this?
What about all those people who would be losing their livelihood, while other illegal structures flourish?
Have you Thought about that Hot Shot?
Besides, when a temple has...
1) boat rides
2) food court
3) cinematic screenings
4) souvenir shops
I think thats going a bit too far. I wonder what the original purpose of temples were meant to be in the first place ?
Let them put in a couple of rides, and i'll do an Appu Ghar comparison article.
Now coming to what you typed,
I just dont get it.
You ask ME to "Get a life", when you are going around posting anonymously on Blogs. Wow. Thats some conclusion you've derived there hot shot. I'm sure your mental institution buddies are extremely proud of you.
Besides, I'm glad for you. You posting here has obviously been the highlight of your boring life.
Advice: Wake up and think. There are rules governing society, and they must not be broken.
If you cant even figure that out, then Congratulations!!
You are mediocre.
Anonymous posting... Haha!
You must be really brave in real life.
good.. good... [nervous twitch] good... glad to see you've finally seen the anti-establishmentarianisology light. It's best that you've seen it I WILL DeSTROY EvEREY... calm down.. take the medicine.. right.
Clearly the only sane thing to do is blow up the temple. I'll meet you at your place at midnight tonight. You bring the explosives.. I'll bring the tortilla chips. I think you'll agree it's time to carpet bomb god's house. Greet him with a big hello and shove a huge amount of napalm up his ass. Watch him explode in a giant cloud of bullshit and prayer beads. I could kill you, you know. Slice your face open with a butter knife but I wont. We could also leak the story to the media. God knows they could reflect on it and shine their beacon of reflections back on us. Last night I was watching Aaj Tak and they were interviewing one of the BCCI persons. The BCCI guy was saying that cricket's a sport, sometimes the team loses, sometimes they win. He also criticized the media and people for immediately forgetting the teams victories and incessantly going on and on about their losses. You know, the sane answer. It's a game.. sometimes we fucking lose. The Aaj Tak guys were adamant about blaming it on someone. The BCCI guy said it was a collective failure and everyone was responsible. Aaj Tak in their brilliance then suggested sacking the entire team to which the BCCI person jokingly said, fine.. we do what the people want.. if they want a team out of 11 names they give.. we'll make one. On this one of the Aaj Tak anchors sprung to life and immediately grabbed his partner by the arm to signify "No wait, I've got this one." asked the BCCI person, "You mean to tell me sir, that if we give you a list of names you'll actually make a team from that. Do you agree to this on air that if I give you a list you'll make a team on it?" At this point the other anchor looked at this guy with a look that said, "What are you, a fucking dumbass? Of course he's not going to really do that!!" And the BCCI person simply ignored this man's outburst of insanity and went on with his own agenda.
If you are saying that the media is a reflection of the people. Then this country is made up of a very sorry group of fucking morons who'd rather hear the latest news about that whore rakhi sawant sucking on someone's cock than how their government has lost all control on running the country and is heading into a spiral bed of anarchy during which I will cut off all of your heads and dance around them peeing in all your mouths.
Where's my fucking medicine!!?
I deleted a comment by mistake.
Not intentional.
Anonymous, if you read this - repost.
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