Never Forget, Nor Forgive: Ayodhya must become the part of our history books.

    Finally, after a long struggle, the nation is all set to witness the iconic Ram temple construction in Ayodhya. Scores of people sacrificed their lives to make this a reality. However, those who sacrificed their lives are not alive to witness this historical event, but we are blessed to see this long-standing dream becoming a reality. The Bhoomi Pujan in Ayodhya on the 5th of Aug will mark the victory of Hindus, but it will also demonstrate the victory of Indian culture and civilization. The same Indian culture and civilization to which our left historians and a political class attempted to paint as a myth. They also made all efforts to make the world believe that our civilization was shaped only after the invaders came to India. However, the Marxist left historians also kept our young generations away from the events of atrocities which invaders committed on our civilization and people.

   Even after independence, our history books kept glorifying the same invaders who destroyed our temples, universities, changed names of places. All these were done with one objective- to destroy India's civilization and culture, but our history books written by Marxist and leftist historians tried whitewashing this.

  The significance of Ayodhya and Lord Rama should have been about our cultural heritage to which everyone is a part of. Still, for long an influential lobby tried hard to make it an issue between Hindus and Muslims. This was very well articulated by ex-ASI Regional Director KK Muhammed who in one of his autobiography revealed that after the excavations of 2003 when evidence of temple was discovered in Ayodhya, the Muslim group was ready to give the site to Hindus but left historians presented twisted shreds of evidence to Muslim party and kept the matter alive.

                   

 ( Image: Hindu structures found in Ayodhya during excavation)

   In other words, the left historians backed by a political class tried to build a narrative that it is Hindus by fighting for Ayodhya are trying to corner Muslims, but this was never the case. The issue was about reclaiming one of India's most significant cultural sites, which symbolizes our great ancient civilization. Even nations like Indonesia, which is the largest Muslim nation, trace their ancestry to Rama. In South Korea, the princess of Ayodhya named Heo Hwang-ok, also known as Suriratna, went all the way to Korea some 2000 years ago to marry King Suro of Geumgwan Gaya. We hardly encounter any of this cultural history of India in our textbooks. Still, all we are taught by our left historians is that Rama is a myth, and Ayodhya issue is an issue of religious conflicts between Hindus and Muslims of India.