Dhannipur mosque has been approved for construction here by the Ayodhya Development Authority, in accordance with the verdict of the Supreme Court regarding the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi.
Archaeologist K K Muhammed, who claims to have first witnessed the remains of a Ram temple under the Babri masjid in Ayodhya, has alleged in a book that the ASI became "a wholly-paralysed body" after 2014
Thousands of Hindu kar sevaks demolished Babri Masjid in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. A Special CBI Court in 2020 acquitted the 32 accused in the case, including top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders of...
The sanctum sanctorum has been designed in such a way that the rays of the rising sun fall on the idol's forehead, he said.
The platform Vidly TV had released a web series titled "Sevak: The Confessions" on the anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and was found to be detrimental to the national security, sovereignty and integrity of...
Babri Masjid in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya was demolished on December 6, 1992 by thousands of Hindu kar sevaks. They believed that it was built atop a ruined Hindu temple that marked the birthplace of Hindu Lord Rama, an...
A new idol of Lord Ram will be installed at the sanctum sanctorum of the grand Ram Temple here at a height of nine feet and the finest sculptors will be engaged for it
Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya in August 2020. The temple is expected to open for people in 2024, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections scheduled in the same year.
The Nirmohi Akhara was awarded one-third of the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land by the Allahabad High Court in 2010, but the Supreme Court overruled...
Babri Masjid was not just a mosque- it had history engraved on it. And on December 6, 1992, its demolition by Hindu Kar Sevaks raised a question over India's...
Revisiting the legal journey of Babri Masjid Ram Janmabhoomi dispute helps us to understand the transition of perceived truth through ages.
Sanjay Kaw, then a reporter with The Statesman newspaper, went on an undercover assignment to Ayodhya in 1992. Speaking to Outlook, Kaw recalls the days and...
Babri Masjid demolition led us to a time where rationality is pitted against emotionality, objectivity against multiple subjectivities and the proclaimed...
Thirty years after the Babri Masjid demolition on December 6, 1992, SM Akhtar, the architect of Ahmadullah Shah mosque in Ayodhya, is confident his design...
Babri Masjid was demolished in 1992. The Supreme Court in 2019 ordered the construction of a Ram temple on the disputed site and directed that five acres be...
Acharya Satyendra Das, the chief priest of the Ram temple, objected to the Sriram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust's decision to stop the distribution of...
If Tulsidas made Ram a self-effacing family man and king to be worshipped, the Ayodhya movement lent him a political identity. Tulsidas’s Ram was a stoic and...
Ramayana is a story of struggle against society’s imposed morality, of kings and queens who are products of their circumstances and choices
The 1990s decade was dominated by the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid row. Now, the Gyanvapi mosque row has added another chapter to the country’s history of...
If the Ram Temple movement established the saffron outfit in the Hindi belt, the Hubballi campaign catapulted it to power in the state
From climbing the ladder of caste politics, raising the banner of secularism, to appearing to show faith in Narendra Modi after realising Modi-baiting would...
A scholar reminisces his growing up in a sleepy town in Bihar and how its secular fabric changed after loud-mouthed Hindu fanatic leaders landed there
Though the objective of Places of Worship Act to discourage any retrogression into communal fault lines is admirable, its contradictions and ambiguity on many...
With the tide of majoritarian appeasement, fuelled by the ruling political establishment, there are efforts now to even exempt the Gyanvapi mosque-Shringar...
Prasun Chatterjee’s debut film focuses on a childhood friendship in the backdrop of communal polarisation to send a strong message
