Yes, Hinduism, particularly Vaishnavism and Shaivism, is widely practised in my neighbourhood. The religious texts used today include the Puranas and the epics like the Mahabharata, which are preserved through oral traditions, manuscripts, and now printed books and digital formats. These texts narrate sacred stories and are transmitted through recitations, temple discourses, and family traditions.

Images are extensively used in worship in my neighbourhood temples. These are similar to those described in the chapter, where early temples housed images of gods and goddesses. The worship involves offering prayers to these images, much like the traditions mentioned.

The buildings used for religious activities today are temples, which can be compared with early structures described in the chapter. The early temple was a small square room called the garbhagriha, with a single doorway for worshippers to enter and offer worship to the image. Gradually, a tall structure was added. Similarly, modern temples in my neighbourhood have a garbhagriha as the sanctum sanctorum where the deity's image is placed, though they are often larger and more elaborate than the early temples mentioned from around the third century CE.

The chapter also describes stupas associated with Buddhism, which developed from the third century BCE. These were different from temples as they were hemispherical structures containing relics, not rooms for housing images. While stupas are not commonly found in my neighbourhood, the temple architecture shows continuity with early traditions described in the text.