Thursday, July 24, 2003
Indians eat, read and sleep religion
Indians find it easier to reach god than have access to a school or hospital. India has more public places of worship - of its multiple faiths - than schools, colleges, hospitals and dispensaries put together.
And there is at least one place of religious worship at every kilometre of the country's road network of 2.4 million kilometres.
According to a wide-ranging survey by the Census of India, there are some 2.4 million places of worship in the country, as against 1.5 million schools and colleges and a mere 600,000 hospitals and dispensaries.
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