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Babri Masjid

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

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: The First Kar Sevak

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

In the Name of Rama

From behind the scenes as well as the frontline, they provided the intellectual, political and spiritual ballast to a movement that culminated on Demolition Day

LK Advani: Man of the Movement

LK Advani was the original apostle of hardcore Hindutva and the man who mobilised India for the sake of Rama

Dateline History

The operative emotion here is one of longing—for better work, opportunities, some development, and, of course, for the grand temple. The contrast with intellectual India could not be more different

Maya Krishna Rao: The Argumentative Actor

Maya Krishna Rao is a solo act in the theatre of protest

Independence of the Mind

When We Are Looters at the Site of History

The Myth of Hindu Terror

What the data says: India faces bigger threats from Jihad and Maoism

Claiming the Taj

How to turn a magnificent monument into a trite property dispute

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