Idol Workship and Ancient Indian Thought

In ancient Hindu thought, the Idol worship practice is a bit like learning & believing in Newtonian Physics, until graduating to Einsteinian Relativistic Physics that invalidates the absolutist world-view implied by the former. Ancient Hindu thought did not consider Idol worship in isolation. It was - but a tool - to achieve a greater goal.
If the Ancient Indian mind were a data center running thousands of jobs, Idol Worship would have been but, one daily batch job to charge-up the system to replenish drained resources. And this job has to run until the data center figures out a way to get connected to a perennial resource pool !!

Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani - Glossy, flat and not much Indian

One more KJO production, one more flat, predictable story line. All gloss, some frills and barely any depth. Bunny - hero - is selfish to the core, for the most part anway, but other than that, typically filmy super-smart. Drinks, dances, brawls galore -and ain wakt mein -  obtains a NorthWestern Univ scholarship with - nary a hint to nor a thought about - his 2 friends who he ostensibly spends all his time with.
8 years later, one of the friends decides to marry (arranged!, hallelujah) - after more drinks/dances/poorly-explained-bruised-friendship-set-right and general herogiri - Bunny domesticates and gets hitched, conveniently. A flat story with a suitably flat New Year scene ending.
Naina - apparently, the heroine - is an add-on, literally to the 3-friend-some and to the script. Where the script fails, the acting holds. Farooque Shaikh's well-enacted character gets a raw deal in the script in a one-sided relationship with his son. One more changing pattern from the typical Indian hero:hero-parent relationship of the past. But, then come to think of it - there wasn't much 'Indian' about the entire narrative. The characters could have belonged  to any upwardly mobile set of families from almost anywhere set in similar locales - and the script would have worked just as well (or badly).
Maybe, this is because - and a case - of art reflecting the society it is set in and what that society wants to see itself as. Probably, which is why it's raking it in, in the BO.

The Great Indian Din

The cacophonous nature of Indian discourse, traditionally &  contemporarily, has been highlighted as a key ingredient - and indeed as an important reason, by some - of sustaining and nurturing our democracy. "The Argumentative Indian" is quoted by the adherents of this theme.
The recent IPL happenings have certainly not dimmed our eagerness to add to the general cacophony that pervades our air-waves/news-waves. Multiply that with 50  odd Indian languages  * 1000 channels/news papers/articles/Portals/blogs/Tweets..... many tongues collectively wagging and Din has never sounded louder!
Which is not surprising, when seen that this does concern Religious Capital.
The former, we Indians have always pretended to be and the latter is what we are unabashedly going after - esp, since 1991 - the Gita's Nishkama Karma theme notwithstanding!