• Here’s a mystical secret: Indians are no more spiritual than anyone else | Priya Shetty | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/nov/03/indians-no-more-spiritual

    Searching for inner peace in a world where the Earth and the economy seem to be screeching into apocalyptic meltdown is understandable, and finding that peace elsewhere seems the obvious answer.

    India has long been an ad man’s dream, with a spiritual brand firmly embedded on the global consciousness. But this myth not only reduces a complex, capable country to a giant spa with cheap food, people travelling there in search of salvation lose out too. It’s time to set the record straight and let you in on a secret: Indians are no more spiritual than anyone else.

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