Babri Masjid
For God’s Sake
MJ Akbar
Pilgrimage to the birthplace of the Lord is an elemental journey in every relevant religion. The Supreme Court, by adjudicating on the legality of the deity and granting an unfettered right to the deity’s birthplace, has created space for India to move on
‘Left Historians Misled Indian Muslims on Ayodhya’
“Hindu-Muslim relations over Ayodhya would not have deteriorated to this point if the left historians had not misled and misguided the Muslim group,” says historian Meenakshi Jain
The Eternity of the Deity
The court has looked at a concept deeply rooted in the spiritual traditions of this land through the prism of English and Roman law
A Chariot in History
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
The Spirit of New India
When the grand Ram temple is finally built on the site reclaimed from an invading army, the restoration of national sovereignty—the essence of the struggle for independence—would have been completed
Challenging the Tyranny of Reputations
The Supreme Court judgment will accelerate the decolonisation of the Indian mind. An alternative narrative has come to dominate and influence the national mood
Taslima Nasrin: ‘Without sexual freedom women will never get equality’
The third of her seven-volume memoir is out in English and Taslima Nasrin still remains a rebel with no regrets
A Vandalised Civilisation
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
The domes of Babri Masjid fell on the remains of the Nehruvian consensus. The aftershocks are being felt even today
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