Journalism outside newsrooms!

Is journalism all about mechanically generating a copy and getting in published in your newspaper/magazine or channel? Should a newsperson remain confined to the newsroom alone? The answer is always no, whenever I have posed this question to other friends and colleagues.
But the problems starts here. How many of us - from this profession ever bother to travel and gather experiences? For journalism or any other field that requires creativity and enriching and intense experience is what counts.
Well, I recently went to this place straight out of the Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider movies! Known as the Polo Jain temples, this place is located in Sabarakantha - the northern district of Gujarat (India).
The picture perfect ruins of the several centuries old Jain and Shiva temples, now engulfed by the greedy broad-leaved vegetation bear a testimony to what happens to all the icons that refuse to change with time - they turn into monuments!
Could this happen to people and professions too?
More about what I did last weekend soon!