Ayodhya

Ram: The Ideal Pop Culture Icon

Kaveree Bamzai

The dynamism and creativity of a people who see Ram as their own prince, friend, son or brother will prevail

The Future Is Safe

Siddharth Singh

Handing over of the 2.77 acres in Ayodhya will not spell doom for Indian Muslims

At a brainstorming session Pramod Mahajan came up with the idea of a nationwide grand yatra, Narendra Modi concurred and that was the beginning of the Ram Rath Yatra, catapulting the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute on the national scene with LK Advani emerging as the face of Hindu aspirations

Shiva First

Lakshmi Bayi

All divinities revel in love and peace - and not on pieces of dead bodies, heaped up to reach a tantalizing heaven

Framing the Fable

Somak Ghoshal

This study on the evolution of photography in the subcontinent strikes a fine balance between the medium’s formal and aesthetic aspirations

A Tale of Two Temples

S Prasannarajan

Sabarimala and Ayodhya: from the fluidity of Hinduism to the certainties of social engineering

A Vandalised Civilisation

PR Ramesh

Post Independence, in our collective zeal to present a politically correct version of history, we have ensured that Delhi’s and north India’s Hindu heritage remains hostage to a mix of distortions and apathy

The Hindu Inflexion

Swapan Dasgupta

The domes of Babri Masjid fell on the remains of the Nehruvian consensus. The aftershocks are being felt even today

Editor’s Note: Demolition-Reclamation-Reinvention

S Prasannarajan

A temple in Modi’s India, if his words are any indication, cannot afford to be incompatible with the spirit of modernisation he has unleashed

Mark Tully: The Witness

Ullekh NP

Mark Tully, who reported it for the world from ground zero, watched some leaders asking the police to stay away and Sangh volunteers breaching police cordons with ease. Then they began to climb up the domes of the mosque and started hacking away at the mortar