Ok Well the title says it all. Its my point of view, and YOU can disagree to it. So lets agree to disagree for the time being, and hear our my rationale.
I have been outside india many times now. I have seen the beauty of European structures and England's Scenic beauty. These are the only things i can compare India to. Europeans are religious, very religious, they gave the world the biggest religion, Christanity. They have many churches to show it off. BUT they also have other structures created by artists in name of art, and just art. See their buildings, see their parks and gardens, see their clothes. All are artistic. Where is the art in India compared to Them?
I have travelled around 50% of India, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, and the whole eastern ghat. Just the regions above Calcutta remain. I am not a religious person, while my parents are. So its nataural for me to visit all the temples in all our visits. I visited almost every temple, each carved with beautiful sculptures and carvings, and hordes of people coming there to see it. BUT what about other structures? Where is our art anywhere else? Is religion the only place to show off our artistic abilities?
Show me nice good buildings, parks, or even any other damn structure, which is artistic. In a population of a billion people there might be atleast 10 lakh people who must be artistic. But why are there only around 10 thousand artistic structures found, all over India?
That is why i say, we are lazy religious people. All we want is to pray to God to help us in our bad times. And in the good times we keep on lazzing around?
What do you do on your weekends? I hope its not sleeping around on your butts.
BTW the image is of Dilwara Temple in Abu. A must see. It is one of the best artistry i have seen. You can spend the whole day just looking at the beautiful carvings. Give it a shot if you are living in Guajrat or Rajasthan.
