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...
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 future as a secular nation.
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 moments leading up to the fateful day when Hindu mobs brought down...
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.
Revisiting the legal journey of Babri Masjid Ram Janmabhoomi dispute helps us to understand the transition of perceived truth through ages.
Babri Masjid demolition led us to a time where rationality is pitted against emotionality, objectivity against multiple subjectivities and the proclaimed cosmopolitanism of big cities against the blatant everyday...
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 the High Court judgement and dismissed its case in its 2019...
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 layout for the mosque fulfills the Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb...
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
A maze of ‘shell’ trusts and other bodies—some registered, some not—have been legally contesting the claims on the land on which Mathura’s Shahi...
Two Ayodhya residents have appealed that the trial court's verdict acquitting the accused be set aside and all accused be held guilty.
The Babri Masjid in Ayodhya was demolished on December 6, 1992 in the culmination of BJP's Rath Yatra. Several BJP leaders were at the time accused in the...
The Allahabad High Court will hear a plea against the acquittal of 32 people accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case on August 1.
The Babri Masjid was demolished on December 6, 1992. Former Deputy PM LK Advani and senior BJP leaders Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti, and Kalyan Singh were...
The Babri mosque was demolished by karsevaks on December 6, 1992. After a long legal battle, the special CBI court on September 30, 2020, pronounced the...
