ABSTRACT
When late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his administration team took over ruling post-colonial India in 1947, their plan was to build a new India and part of this manifestation was the creation of heavy industries in the 1950s and 1960s to have a commanding height of the economy. The new religion then for India was industrialization and the “temples” were heavy steel and cement plants.1 Fast forward to India’s economic reforms and liberalization in 1991 because of post-Cold War developments and effects of four decades of closed economic policies. In contradiction to India’s third world appearance, which still pervades throughout the subcontinent, the gleaming and ultra modern high-techology (high-tech) parks which house mainly information technology (IT) companies are the new temples of modern India. If high-tech parks are the new temples, then IT is the “new religion” of modern India. What is the link between India’s new religion and temples with Singapore?
