Where shall we go?

"Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University once again witnessed violence on Sunday when two groups of students clashed over meat being served in the hostel canteen on the occasion of Ram Navami," Firstpost. "There are two versions of what happened on Sunday: according to the Left's JNU students' union (JNUSU), the members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) created a ruckus, and assaulted members of the Kaveri hostel mess over cooking of chicken on Sunday. ABVP members alleged that members of Left-wing student outfits disrupted a prayer ceremony organised on the occasion of Ram Navami by shouting slogans." In August 2021, the Dr Hari Singh Gour University in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh withdrew from an international seminar on 'Cultural and Linguistic Hurdles in the Achievement of Scientific Temper' because of bullying by ABVP, TIE. The ABVP objected to speakers that they deemed to be anti-national. "On April 4, South Delhi Municipal Corporation Mayor, Mukkesh Suryaan has ordered closure of meat shops in South Delhi during the Hindu festival of Navratri," opindia. Such constraints on Hindus to celebrate a Hindu festival is mystifying. "Hinduism is more of a way of life than a religion," and "there is no single founder of Hinduism and neither any single text nor any single God like other religions," TOI. "The Dharma in Hinduism is called 'Sanatana Dharma' and the definition of Dharma is different from religion. Dharma is a set of rules, Sanatan Dharma is those rules which are valid since eternity." These rules certainly do not include beating up people if they choose not to pray on a certain day. Rama is not worshiped in West Bengal. "While Durga puja is the state's biggest annual festival, and daughters Laxmi and Saraswati are among the most popular household deities, temples dedicated to Radha-Krishna, Shiva and Kali dot West Bengal's towns and villages," HT.  While people in Delhi were celebrating Rama, people in West Bengal were worshiping Goddess Annapurna. "National Family Health Survey 4 data suggest that 70 percent of women and 78 percent of men in the country consume some form of meat," India Today. "Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Jharkhand are states where the proportion of non-vegetarians is more than 97 percent. In contrast, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat and Rajasthan have the least non-vegetarian population (below 40 percent) government data show." If vegetarianism is meant to signify kindness to animals, beating up people to show that kindness seems extraordinary. As per the government, "Hindus make up 79.8% of India's 1.2 billion people in the 2011 census. 94% of the world's Hindus live in India," BBC. If we get beaten up in our only home in the name of Hinduism where will we go? We are here because our gods are all around us.