Puri Jagannath Temple's UnGodly Action

When I first read this
I was shocked to the core. I cannot imagine, in a nation where scores go literally hungry and that too Orissa which till recently was in news for hunger deaths, such a shameful act can be committed.

For those who are wondering what the issue is, the priests in Puri Jagannath temple in India, decided that the food cooked to serve the devotees was defiled and desecrated due to the entry of an American inside the temple. Now this is fine, they could have sent it outside the temple to other needy people or orphanages etc. But what they did with this "uncleanse" food is shocking. They dug a pit and threw the food down in that pit. ToI says that the food is worth 3Lakhs INR or 300,000INR. Even if the value of that food 1p it is still a shameful act.

How do you juxtapose this act with the country's aspiration of being a global superpower in 2020 ? Will this superstition stymie the growth or will the growth overpower such superstition ? I ferverntly hope for the latter to happen.