When temples outnumber schools and hospitals ...

The constant presence of religion--mostly Hinduism--kind of freaks me out when I visit India.  But, because I do not want to stir serious debates on such a sensitive issue for a short duration that I am typically there ....
"mum is the word" as Jack Tripper once put in Three's Company!

I am not sure whether the rapidly growing India's middle class ever pauses to think about this, for instance:

India now has 2.5 million places of worship, but only 1.5 million schools and barely seventy-five thousand hospitals. Pilgrimages now account for more than 50 percent of all package tours, while the bigger pilgrimage sites now vie with the Taj Mahal for the title of most visited in the country: the Balaji Temple in Tirupati had 23 million visitors last year, while 17.25 million trekked to the mountain shrine of the goddess Vaishno Devi, one of India’s holiest sites. Such is the appetite for rituals by this newly religious middle class that there has recently been a severe shortfall in English- and Sanskrit-speaking priests with the qualifications to perform Vedic rituals. When it comes to religion in the new India, demand has completely outstripped supply.

More about religion in India, and in Pakistan too, here in an essay by William Dalrymple, who is the author of Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India