22nd January 2024 - Ram Lala has returned! There are certain moments in history that feel less like events and more like echoes finally reaching their destination. Today felt like one of them. After nearly 1000 years of conflict, waiting, memory, politics, faith, destruction, reconstruction, debate, and devotion, Sri Ram has finally returned to Ayodhya. And strangely, the atmosphere today did not merely feel festive, it felt emotional, almost civilisational. Not because a structure was built. But because an idea survived long enough to witness itself reborn. What makes Lord Ram timeless is perhaps the fact that every generation interprets him differently. To some, he is God. To some, an ideal king. To some, a symbol of discipline, sacrifice, restraint, and dharma in an age where chaos often appears more rewarding than virtue. And maybe that is why Ramayana never truly disappears from India’s consciousness. It keeps returning. In stories. ...