India, Nov. 6 -- - Manish Khemka

Chairman, Global Taxpayers Trust, and Member, GST Grievance Redressal Committee, Uttar Pradesh

Ayodhya's Deepotsav is not merely an expression of faith or a religious event that illuminates the ghats of Saryu. It has become a golden chapter of cultural renaissance and economic self-reliance that has touched the lives of people at the last rung of society. When lakhs of earthen lamps are lit simultaneously along the ghats of the Saryu, each lamp also illuminates the hard work of a potter, the support provided by women who make cotton wicks, the struggles of boatmen, and the bright hopes of laborers. The decade of Deepotsav stands as the strongest testimony to how the 'light of earthen lamps' has given bir...