“Beyond Ayodhya Ram Mandir: 5 things Bharat must change as a Hindu rashtra”, First Post, January 22, 2024:

Hindu spiritual assertiveness is a strange and beautiful thing.

It does not convert one by the sword.
It does not scream from loudspeakers, “Raliv, chaliv, ya galiv (convert, leave, or die).”
It does not fire on defenceless devotees or set them on fire in a train.
It does not let water from its feet smear someone else’s objects of worship.
It simply overwhelms the world with songs, dance, chants, mantras, smiles, colours, and an explosion of celebration.

The pran pratistha ceremony on Shri Ram in his birthplace Ayodhya, 496 years after a commander of the marauding Islamic invader Babar ordered the destruction of the temple and building of the Babri masjid on its remains, brings history a full circle. It has never been so awake or unapologetic about its dharma perhaps in the last thousand years of relentless invasions and colonialism.

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