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Hope And Trepidation Swirl Around Ravidas’ Birth Anniversary
Is a symbolic act of restoring a demolished temple enough, ask Ravidas’s devotees outlookindia.com 2021-03-06T07:31:50+05:30
On February 27, the 644th birth anniversary of Ravidas poet-saint and social reformer of the Bhakti movement who vigorously fought against caste evils hope and misgivings swirled around the grounds of the once-famed Guru Ravidas temple at Tuglaqabad in Delhi.
While priests from low-caste communities waxed lyrical about Ravidas’s pursuit of personal spiritual freedoms and social unity, the congregation exhibited some trepidation about the socially depressed classes in India.
Their fears are not unfounded.