The religious convention (Haridwar Series)

You know how at a medical convention you have a lot of vendors related to the medical field trying to sell their stuff? There was a similar scene out there in Haridwar with babas selling themselves instead. One was offering yoga classes, another meditation. But the best ones of all were offering to solve global warming and cure AIDS (not kidding). It was just pathetic. But hey, you gotta sell yourself to your target demographic. (Someone's dying to add "Marketers 3, Customers 0" in the comments).

And of course, keeping with the disgusting theme of "soliciting" visitors to their meta-temples that we saw in Jammu, here too there were a bunch of "priests" shouting at us, asking us to pay their temple a visit. And while you are in their corner, you were asked to donate something, preferably a C-note based on the not-so-subtle hints they were giving. You see, in S. India that stuff won't fly. People are a lot smarter or atleast a lot more cynical. Thank you N. India for turning me off of temples for the foreseeable future.