COVER STORY
This issue of 바카라 looks at the phenomenon of religious tourism in the country in the wake of the Maha Kumbh and the various concerns it raises in an atmosphere charged with Hindu nationalism.
바카라 Magazine - 21 March 2025
The Pilgrim's Progress
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The obvious global rise in pilgrimage and religious tourism is driven not just the growing religiosity across societies, but also choices made by governments on the kind of infrastructure to develop. This trend has the backing of a market-driven push for commodification of faith and the Right-wing strategy of religion-based mass mobilisation
Religious tourism has moved from the spiritual to the transactional
The advent of social media changed life in the sleepy town of Gadha, where a 28-year-old Dhirendra Krishna Garg aka Bageshwar Baba, has amassed an unbelievable following who believe he has supernatural powers
Modern intellectuals are yet to appreciate the specialness of melas
From a backwater town to a religious tourism hotspot, Ayodhya라이브 바카라 transformation story has positives as well as negatives
As the underwater search continues for relics from the mythical Dwarka of Lord Krishna submerged under the Arabian Sea, are ecological threats to the still-inhabited city on the Gujarat shore getting less attention than they deserve?
Pilgrims are being fast-tracked into ‘spiritual tourists’. This places impossible demands on the vulnerable Himalayan region
With Sitamarhi in Bihar included in the central government라이브 바카라 Ramayan Circuit list, Sita라이브 바카라 birthplace may finally get the same stature as Ram라이브 바카라 in Ayodhya
What is lost through the glitz that Mecca has acquired is the subtlety of the spiritual experience
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The obvious global rise in pilgrimage and religious tourism is driven not just the growing religiosity across societies, but also choices made by governments on the kind of infrastructure to develop. This trend has the backing of a market-driven push for commodification of faith and the Right-wing strategy of religion-based mass mobilisation
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Religious tourism has moved from the spiritual to the transactional
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The advent of social media changed life in the sleepy town of Gadha, where a 28-year-old Dhirendra Krishna Garg aka Bageshwar Baba, has amassed an unbelievable following who believe he has supernatural powers
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Modern intellectuals are yet to appreciate the specialness of melas
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From a backwater town to a religious tourism hotspot, Ayodhya라이브 바카라 transformation story has positives as well as negatives
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As the underwater search continues for relics from the mythical Dwarka of Lord Krishna submerged under the Arabian Sea, are ecological threats to the still-inhabited city on the Gujarat shore getting less attention than they deserve?
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Pilgrims are being fast-tracked into ‘spiritual tourists’. This places impossible demands on the vulnerable Himalayan region
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With Sitamarhi in Bihar included in the central government라이브 바카라 Ramayan Circuit list, Sita라이브 바카라 birthplace may finally get the same stature as Ram라이브 바카라 in Ayodhya
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What is lost through the glitz that Mecca has acquired is the subtlety of the spiritual experience
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India라이브 바카라 foreign policy initiatives in recent years have shown signs of giving in to pressure from the United States
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With her short story collection Heart Lamp being longlisted for the International Booker Prize this year,Banu Mushtaq has become the first Kannada writer to be nominated for the prestigious prize
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