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Ayodhya

Ram’s Homecoming

Rajeev Deshpande

As the long-awaited temple rises in Ayodhya, Open gets exclusive access to the site where an ancient city is being rebuilt

BB Lal (1921-2022): The Man Who Turned the Past

He provided the archaeological legitimacy for a Ram temple in Ayodhya

The Relevance of Lord Rama

On why the quest for the ideal man ended with Him

I, the Hindu

A religion regains its pride

The Awakening

The Ram temple offers itself as an opportunity for a new generation to think for themselves about this wave of history and faith that has washed in, sweeping away a great amount of historical angst and refuse

Modi Redeems a Sacred Pledge in Ayodhya

What the Ram Temple does is to link nationhood to a deeper and longer perspective, incorporating INDIA’S entire cultural inheritance, from antiquity to the present

A Year in the Life of Ayodhya

Events that have followed the Ram Rath Yatra of 1990, culminating in August 2020, are a collective testimony to LK Advani’s strategic thinking

The Original Existential Hero

We stay with Rama-the-human because of his resemblance to us

Return to the Ideal City

There was no room for falsities in the welfare state of Rama as depicted in the epic

The Great Indian Way

The rebuilding of the Ram temple is the triumph of resacralisation

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