India, Oct. 20 -- Just recently, I hired an autorickshaw in Bengaluru. While travelling in the autorickshaw, I noticed a printed caption above the driver's seat. It read: "Price the Lord." My mind told me that it was a typo. The word "Praise" has been wrongly spelt as "Price." But that caption lingered in my mind for a long time. While examining reality, I felt that God has indeed become a commercial commodity. Commercialisation of religion has always been disturbing for me.

There can be no single definition of what constitutes a religion, as the word means many different things to different people. But certainly, many people would agree that religion is a multifaceted entity consisting of but not limited to theology (study of God), phil...