Ram Navami 2023

 This year 'Ram Navami' the biggest Hindu festival was celebrated on 30 March, 2023 and the most awaited photos and videos were from Ayodhya the city of Prabhu Shri Ram. As we all know Ram Navami is celebrated every year to mark birthday of Lord Ram who was born in Ayodhya to king Dasharath and queen Kaushalya it makes the occasion more significant in the birthcity of lord ram who was the seventh avatar of lord Vishnu. The festival marks the win of good over evil and spreading love and glory all over the world. This festival is a part of the Chaitra Navaratri in the spring, and falls on the ninth day of the bright half (Shukla Paksha) of the lunar cycle of Chaitra (March-April), the first month in the Hindu calendar.

However, while it was the month of Ramadan for the Muslims and Chaitra Navaratri for the Hindus it turned to be the month of sorrow and sadness for many. On the evening of 30th March, 2023 when the country was busy celebrating Ram Navami the birthday of Shri Ram by chanting prayers and singing bhajans in temples, organizing Shobha Yatras in different parts of the country. In many parts of the country violence was reported in clashes between Hindu procession celebrating Ram Navami & people of a specific community (majorly Muslims as reported by the police in arrests made against the people involved in the clashes and acts of violence) many people got injured while a few died too. Cases of stone pelting on Hindu Procession, damage to public property and beating of Hindus celebrating Ram Navami in Muslim majority areas were reported in the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, West Bengal, Delhi & Bihar where police was also held through stone pelting, burning of vehicles, attacks on police personnel, etc.

The media did telecast videos and photos of the act but the next day saw nothing against the ones who committed the crime and also many of them got away from police custody. If the arrests were only meant to console the victim Hindu families and show the rest of the world that law and order exists I certainly don't want it. Why can't the government ask the employees working in the Electricity and water departments to cut off their services for the time being until they are sentenced by the court for their crime. Why can't the government remove families of such people from their schemes meant for the public. If the government, the system can't get us justice for the hateful crimes against us why don't they make the families of the convicted suffer for their crimes to teach them a lesson so that no one ever tries to step up and get involved in such acts. Being minority in the country they get support from human rights groups and use their victim card to escape the system and yet no action has been taken against them after repeated incidents across the country. This is not the first time it did happen, the cycle continues and goes on but we only take a look at it once in a while and forget it. The number of deaths of hindu people is rising day by day yet we people choose to remain silent and keep the tag of being secular hindu. We need to wake up and if we don't do it now we will be the next to become minority in our own country. The alarm is ringing but if we won't listen to it now it'll be late enough to regret.