The Ram Mandir will soon be a reality. Why am I not rejoicing?

I ought to be celebrating the foundation-laying of the Ram Janmabhoomi Temple in Ayodhya coming up on August 5, 2020. The razing of the temple that commemorated the birthplace of one of the dearest human forms of the divine — Ram (or Rama) - by the Mughal marauder Babur and the building of a mosque (Babri Masjid) over it has been a wound that festered for generations of Hindus. Come Wednesday, I know that a large population of India will erupt in joy when the foundation stone is consecrated and centuries of neglect and disrespect showed to a sacred Hindu site will be reversed. Perhaps, it will warm my heart too. But when I will remember the trials and tribulations that the Hindus went through - the long-drawn legal processes to establish that the site was really the birthplace of Ram — my anger will come back. Again my mind will ask — why did a court have to decide that Hindus could build a temple to commemorate the birthplace of Rama? A land which has been inhabited for millennia by Hindus needed lawyers to run around collecting evidence and preparing arguments to establish that the Janmabhoomi was known throughout history as the birthplace of Ram? Kar Sevaks had to lose their lives for daring to claim what was theirs? <a href="https://medium.com/@sahana.singh/the-ram-mandir-will-soon-be-a-reality-why-am-i-not-rejoicing-bf1b5750aab7">Read More</a>