Superstitious war against Corona, sometimes Havan, sometimes Dhuni, sometimes Arpan

- People seem to be losing faith in the health system and adopting self-defense methods

New delhi date. Thursday, May 13, 2021

The country is currently facing another wave of corona. Mourning is rampant, people are falling ill, and thousands are dying. Doctors in the country are working day and night to combat the epidemic and vaccination work is in full swing. In the midst of all this, bigotry is also appearing in various parts of the country in the fight against Corona. Somewhere people are blowing and somewhere they are smoking so that the corona can be beaten.

Havankund turned into town

The Corona epidemic has now spread to the villages and people have rallied to defeat the Corona on the basis of their religious beliefs before the health department can become active. Havankund was built in a trolley in Rajgarh, Madhya Pradesh, in which it continued to be sacrificed and rotated throughout the area. People believed that doing so would purify the atmosphere and weaken the corona. Many herbs were also used in this abyss.

Home-to-home request

A similar situation was witnessed in Jhajjar in Haryana. The villagers havaned and traveled all over the city, smoking Google-frankincense. The villagers kept the crematorium in a tractor-trolley and turned it into a village, urging people to perform yajna from house to house.

The situation is similar in Saharanpur, UP

Havan was organized by Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal activists in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. The video of Havan's contents being burned in a bucket and its smoke being carried to different parts of the city has also gone viral.

There was also a picture of Gaunaria village in Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh where people have started worshiping to beat Corona. The villagers have started the 9-day ritual. In it the women and men of the village are praying for deliverance from the plague by rising in the fields and giving half to the setting sun.

Pooja-arch in front of patients in Kanpur

A video of a government hospital in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, is also going viral. In this April video, 2 women are seen chanting mantras in front of a patient, claiming that they will recover.

Such incidents are coming up from many parts of the country in which people are putting more emphasis on any belief or indigenous recipe. Then whether it is havan or massage with dung. Such images suggest that people are losing faith in the health system and adopting preventive methods in their own way.