{"id":416,"date":"2007-10-14T07:45:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T02:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2007\/10\/14\/why-hinduism-rocks\/"},"modified":"2007-10-14T07:45:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T02:15:53","slug":"why-hinduism-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/14\/why-hinduism-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Hinduism Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had gone to the Sri Rangaswamy (or is it Sri Ranganathan?) temple at Srirangapatnam (Tipu Sultan&#8217;s capital near Mysore) with my family a couple of months ago. There was a a massive temple chariot outside. To give you an idea of how massive it is, look at how it towers over the Zen Estilo parked next to it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aadisht\/1557200921\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2001\/1557200921_e881e3c85f.jpg?w=400\" alt=\"Temple Chariot: Head On\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zoom in closer, and you can see that there has been carving done all across the chariot:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aadisht\/1558086890\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2326\/1558086890_29006260db.jpg?w=400\" alt=\"Temple Chariot: Long Shot\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Such as this (Warning: extremely graphic and Not-Safe-For-Work photo follows after the fold):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aadisht\/1557503659\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2149\/1557503659_01f974c343_b.jpg?w=400\" alt=\"How to Make Centaurs\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t even <em>notice<\/em> this until I imported the photos into Picasa for post-processing. After which I had the mother of all double takes.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this just goes to show how awesome our ancient culture is. The degenerate west can&#8217;t come up with anything like this. My only question is &#8211; why the hell hasn&#8217;t Amar Chitra Katha covered this yet? Our children need to know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had gone to the Sri Rangaswamy (or is it Sri Ranganathan?) temple at Srirangapatnam (Tipu Sultan&#8217;s capital near Mysore) with my family a couple of months ago. There was a a massive temple chariot outside. To give you an idea of how massive it is, look at how it towers over the Zen Estilo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-6I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}