Is Hinduism an organised religion?
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Hinduism is not an organized religion such as we ordinarily consider one to be. There is no Hindu church, no Hindu Pope, no Hindu Rome, Jerusalem or Mecca that all Hindus should go to, no Hindu messiah or prophet all Hindus must revere, no one Hindu Bible all Hindus must read. Hinduism has no prescribed day of the week for worship, no one prescribed mass, ritual or call to prayer that everyone must do. The different sects within Hinduism have their different ashrams, temples, leaders, holy places, holy days and holy books, but there is no one set of these for all Hindus.
After her famously successful diversion with celebrity Big Brother, Shilpa Shetty gets back to her day job as a Bollywood actress. That is the selling point of Life in a Metro, which alas as little else to commend itself.The trend of narrating multiple stories in Hindi films continues. Salaam-E-Eshq, Honeymoon Travels and Just Married were only the beginning - virtually all 2007 films seem to tackle multiple stories. Writer/director Anurag Basu’s loosely-knitted collection of short stories do well to avoid the usual melodrama and song sequences associated with Hindi films, but his âsex in the city styleâ portrayal of metropolitan India is far from thrilling.