Ram Navami clashes in Murshidabad on Monday. Usually, the tenets of any religion have absolutely nothing to do with the way fundamentalists and political parties will use that religion to further their ends. Pic/PTI

This Ram Navami, there was violence in Bihar and Bengal. Like most communal violence in India, there was provocation, there was retaliation, there was mayhem, arson, looting, vandalism, destruction and also, now, death.