ABSTRACT
It is often remarked that whatever one says about India, the opposite is also true. Indicating the accretive and mobile quality of the traditions that have come to be called Hindu and that form the substratum of Indic cultures, this maxim is even more valid in India today, when an average Hindu’s hand is as inseparable from a mobile phone as from a puja thread round the wrist, and when he or she eats white bread and toffees from the corner store as habitually as roti or rice cooked at home.
