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
All divinities revel in love and peace - and not on pieces of dead bodies, heaped up to reach a tantalizing heaven
This study on the evolution of photography in the subcontinent strikes a fine balance between the medium’s formal and aesthetic aspirations
Sabarimala and Ayodhya: from the fluidity of Hinduism to the certainties of social engineering
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 domes of Babri Masjid fell on the remains of the Nehruvian consensus. The aftershocks are being felt even today
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, 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
Kameshwar Chaupal, now 61, recounts the exact moment he was called onto the stage in Ayodhya with Sangh Parivar stalwarts and told that he would lay the first brick at the construction site of the proposed Rama temple