Your Celebration Poem by Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon

what do you celebrate?

pranapatishtha of the new place of worship
or pranavyaahati of the old one?


Note: the head of the nation (or is he the head of just one community?) has called for nationwide celebrations on the occasion of consecration of the new place of worship constructed on the site where the old one stood once.

Words:
Pranapratishta: (Sanskrit) installation of the new idol, consecration
Pranavyaahati: (Sanskrit) extreme difficulty in continuing to live; end of life (here caused by the government machinery)