This brass statue, gold-like in luster and an exact imitation of the image enshrining the Tirupati Balaji temple, is the most worshipped deity icon in India. Tirupati Balaji is the most visited and as regards its assets and belongings, a shrine in India, and one of a few across the world. The visitor stands in the hours-long queue, without food and water and half-clad, and sometimes also shaven-headed, with children and aged parents, for a few seconds’ ‘darshan’ – a vision, of the deity.