The weakening of the deities’ power to heal induces more recurrent ritual failures, which in turn increases demand for biomedical remedies. In this reasoning, modernity, in the form of biomedical power, is thought to have broken a rule of reciprocity on which the moral economy of ritual healing is based. This rule, which has been widely recorded in other Hindu contexts, governs both spiritual and human relationship; the superior being (for example a god or a hum being of