politics
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
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
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
Indraprastha
A lucky economist, a chief justice's love for publicity and a chief minister's drunken words
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
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