Chopper services in pilgrim spots must stop – Reshmi Dasgupta

The crux of the dilemma is the conflation of pilgrimage with tourism—manifest in the oxymoronic phrase “spiritual tourism”—because both involve travel. But the purposes of both are utterly different. Spiritual by definition cannot be materialistic; it is about purifying the soul and attaining enlightenment. Tourism is primarily to gratify the five senses—and there is nothing […]