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Thu Apr 18, 2013, 11:33 AM Apr 2013

Mobile apps bring religion to your fingertips

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/mobile-apps-bring-religion-to-your-fingertips/articleshow/19609320.cms

By Priya M Menon, TNN | 18 Apr, 2013, 09.34AM IST


Technology has brought spirituality to the fingertips of today's generation, who are discovering ancient religious texts and mythology with the help of mobile spiritual apps.

CHENNAI: Every day, Mohammed Iqbal T V goes to the mosque during his lunch break. After offering prayers, he whips out his smartphone and goes to the iQuran app he has downloaded to read portions of the holy text.

Pocket-sized versions of the Quran are available. "But I don't feel like carrying it around every day. It is more convenient to have it on my phone since I carry it with me all the time," says Iqbal, who uses two Quran apps.

Technology has brought spirituality to the fingertips of today's generation, who are discovering ancient religious texts and mythology with the help of mobile spiritual apps. For young and educated Indians like Iqbal, smartphones and tablets are a way to keep in touch with their spiritual side. They listen to the Bhagvad Gita while travelling to work, keep track of their good and bad deeds with the help of SinTracker, and offer virtual prayers to their favourite deity before going to bed.

Sudhakar Kanakaraj, who works with a software company in Bangalore, developed the Lord Muruga Pooja app three months ago. "I wanted to do something that was spiritual," he says. "People lead busy lives and travel a lot. The one thing they always have is their mobile phone."

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