Braj Theme Parks :: Fossilizing a Living Tradition

When you fall short of creative imaginations, you retort to phoney simplifications just to gain some quick brownie points in the circles you roam. Creating a Krishna theme park in a living tradition of Braj, would tantamount to a pre-mature fossilization at the hands of consumerist forces. 

If a dollar hungry spiritualopreneur would have seconded this proposal, it would have been cast aside as a mis-appropriated exercise in tune with the gigantic spiritual malls coming up on the Chhatikara - Vrindavan Road. 

But such a bid from the sitting MP of a ruling political party being led by a well meaning leader of eminence having deep footing into the Indian Civilization, simply showcases the intellectual bankruptcy and exposes the political ills of para-trooping a danseuse from the tinsel town to take care of the aspirations of a 25 Lakh Plus native and 5 Crore Plus visiting population to a zone which has been defining the Indian Identity for ages. 

Braj - the land of Sri Krishna still harbors and lives through the ethos and traditions of prosperity, not just on the material plane but interestingly on the emotional and spiritual plane as well whose sanctity was so mercilessly abrogated during the bygone Sri Krishna Mahotsav. 

When the insignia of Sri Krishna are presented across the sacred zone of Braj, what purpose would be achieved by creating yet another super-structure, whatsoever you may call it? 

Instead of putting her influence & charms to create a further build-up and align with the forces which are working for the all round development of the region from first principles, the imported Member Parliament has somewhere fallen into the trap of a coterie of vested ignorant interests which has somewhere got her priorities myopic. 

If the sitting MP would have taken up, for example the cause of the 137 Sacred Groves of Braj, she would have catapulted her status to that of a real ambassador of Braj. 

The land of Braj is a theme park in itself. It should be envisioned to be groomed as a stupendous cultural zone of India.  With over 150 villages of heritage importance having over 750 sites of importance, it would be pertinent on the part of the elected parliamentarian to expand her horizons and set out the tone and tenor of Braj resurrection in the right direction.