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Waking Ayodhya’s ghosts(1)
The implications of the verdict on the destruction of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya are far more damaging for India’s Muslims than they seem to realise, writes Aijaz Zaka Syed
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The Ayodhya verdict, beyond the liberal Brahmanical framework
The verdict, far from ensuring a respectful closure, has opened up a Pandoras box, whereby every place of religious worship will be under threat from the RSS and its myriad militant affiliates, who have proved their prowess at conducting pogroms and destruction of mosques in Gujarat…
Supreme Court Ayodhya appeal may throw up faith-fact issue: Sibal
“Can faith be the basis of a fact?” This fundamental issue may arise in the Supreme Court if it is moved by any litigant against the Allahabad High Court’s Ayodhya verdict, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal has said. Asked by Karan Thapar, who interviewed Sibal for CNBC TV18, about the issues the high court judgment has thrown up, the minister said: “There is, for example, the fundamental issue that will arise in the SC (Supreme Court), that can faith be the basis of a fact?”…Read More
The verdict on Ayodhya: a historian’s perspective
The verdict has created a precedent in the court of law that land can be claimed by declaring it to be the birthplace of a divine or semi-divine being worshipped by a group that defines itself as a community. There will now be many such janmasthans wherever appropriate property can be found or a required dispute manufactured…Read More
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