Possession of inner and outer courtyard will be handed over to the trustees. Muslim parties to be given a 5-acre plot in Ayodhya, says 5-judge Supreme Court bench.
Arshad Madani, chief of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, a key player in Ayodhya mediation, also hit out at Amit Shah for his NRC comments and slammed BJP over mob lynching.
Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind chief Arshad Madani, a key player in Ayodhya mediation, says in first round of talks, he asked for Muslims to be given just the old Babri Masjid site.
Archaeologists excavated Ayodhya on a number of occasions, not to search exact location of Ram’s birth place, but to practice tradition-based archaeology.
Ayodhya now remains trapped in the Mandir-Masjid conflict. Its residents have been forced to live with broken roads, choked sewers and lack of doctors.
In an India that was post-Mughal but pre-British Raj, diplomacy, popular religion, and a constellation of genius painters created the most spectacular Ramayana adaptation ever.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
So if the religion evolved, what should be done? Are 4 marriages allowed on Islam under normal conditions? Does the Holy Koran say that women cannot drive?
Problems in Indis is that majority of Indians do not know that the do not know,
Writer is highly confused. Does he want to say country has not witnessed barbarian attacks of the follower of middle East faith. The remains of destruction of ancient shrines can easily be seen in the structure Quwwat ul mosque, gyanvapi mosque and many others. The list is very long.
India is littered with thousands of desecrated and destroyed temples by the Muslim rulers. It is the most glaring evidence of Muslim brutality that Hindus see everyday around them. But when we go to school we read a perverted version of history that portrays Muslim rulers as benevolent emperors who civilized India. This disconnect between the lived experience and a concocted history being shoved down their throats adds insult to the injury. And it is bound to blow up like it did in 1992 and help BJP come to power – twice. The sad state of the Hindu- Muslim relations in India is the result of the grand fraudulent project of the nehruvian marxists to lie to Hindus about their history and force them to acquire an engineered identity. Needless to say, this has been a monumental failure. The way forward is to confront our history head on, do honest research on our history (not the Romila Thapar and Irfan Habib kind of fraudulent research) and truthfully acknowledge the Muslim rulers’ atrocities. That’s the only way to make peace with our past – through truth and reconciliation. If not, Kashi and Mathura will be next.
I totally agree with the author, in that separating the Land (land / geography is essential to the Hindu identity) and the Structure (which could fall under the WAQF framework from a historical preservation perspective) is a pragmatic solution.
However, it seems like the author dispute’s the SC’s “.. the lands have witnessed ..” statement as historical fact. Regardless, the crux of the paragraph lies in the next sentence ie ” .. assimilated into the idea of India everyone who sought their [the land’s] providence..”
It’s unclear how this paragraph leads one to believe that the SC considers present day Muslims to be outsiders.
Historicallly, most of the Mughal Kings considered themselves outsiders and used their ethnic and religious identity to reinforce that status, and hence justify their dominion. Anyone using the WAQF framework to view the disputed land risks tacitly laying claim to that notion of ‘outsiderness’.
But the SC’s judgement, I believe, recognizes that the Muslim faithful had abandoned the site, the Hindus had not. From that perspective, I think the conclusion of the article is misplaced.
From a historical viewpoint, it’s telling what we choose to preserve and hold on to. The structure, if important from that context, should be reconstructed, and provisions for the same provided.
* clarification. Reference to the Muslim faithful before the mid 1800s not after the mid 1900s.
As a mature democracy we should be able to handle tough, searching, inconvenient questions. With the same factual matrix, what if crazed mobs of Muslims had torn down a Hindu temple that had stood undisturbed for 450 years. Would an analogous judgment have been delivered today.
You Faux Mr Ashok, or whatever use your real Arabic name, It has been done many times, even happening now in Kashmir, pk, Ram Temple existed on the very same site in Ayodhya before 1528, then Mir Baqi constructed the controversial structure only to be rightfully removed in 1992 as it was on built after removing the ancient shrine.
When it comes to destruction and killing, Muslims have no parallel in history.
Look no further than Godhra! 60 Ram devotees, half of them women and children, burnt to death by frenzied Muslim mob.
Your facts are all mixed up Mr Semi Literate. Stop selective reading. Get aware for real.
Do you know Vedic dharma don’t have concept of temples.
So if the religion evolved, what should be done? Are 4 marriages allowed on Islam under normal conditions? Does the Holy Koran say that women cannot drive?
Problems in Indis is that majority of Indians do not know that the do not know,
Writer is highly confused. Does he want to say country has not witnessed barbarian attacks of the follower of middle East faith. The remains of destruction of ancient shrines can easily be seen in the structure Quwwat ul mosque, gyanvapi mosque and many others. The list is very long.
India is littered with thousands of desecrated and destroyed temples by the Muslim rulers. It is the most glaring evidence of Muslim brutality that Hindus see everyday around them. But when we go to school we read a perverted version of history that portrays Muslim rulers as benevolent emperors who civilized India. This disconnect between the lived experience and a concocted history being shoved down their throats adds insult to the injury. And it is bound to blow up like it did in 1992 and help BJP come to power – twice. The sad state of the Hindu- Muslim relations in India is the result of the grand fraudulent project of the nehruvian marxists to lie to Hindus about their history and force them to acquire an engineered identity. Needless to say, this has been a monumental failure. The way forward is to confront our history head on, do honest research on our history (not the Romila Thapar and Irfan Habib kind of fraudulent research) and truthfully acknowledge the Muslim rulers’ atrocities. That’s the only way to make peace with our past – through truth and reconciliation. If not, Kashi and Mathura will be next.
I totally agree with the author, in that separating the Land (land / geography is essential to the Hindu identity) and the Structure (which could fall under the WAQF framework from a historical preservation perspective) is a pragmatic solution.
However, it seems like the author dispute’s the SC’s “.. the lands have witnessed ..” statement as historical fact. Regardless, the crux of the paragraph lies in the next sentence ie ” .. assimilated into the idea of India everyone who sought their [the land’s] providence..”
It’s unclear how this paragraph leads one to believe that the SC considers present day Muslims to be outsiders.
Historicallly, most of the Mughal Kings considered themselves outsiders and used their ethnic and religious identity to reinforce that status, and hence justify their dominion. Anyone using the WAQF framework to view the disputed land risks tacitly laying claim to that notion of ‘outsiderness’.
But the SC’s judgement, I believe, recognizes that the Muslim faithful had abandoned the site, the Hindus had not. From that perspective, I think the conclusion of the article is misplaced.
From a historical viewpoint, it’s telling what we choose to preserve and hold on to. The structure, if important from that context, should be reconstructed, and provisions for the same provided.
* clarification. Reference to the Muslim faithful before the mid 1800s not after the mid 1900s.
As a mature democracy we should be able to handle tough, searching, inconvenient questions. With the same factual matrix, what if crazed mobs of Muslims had torn down a Hindu temple that had stood undisturbed for 450 years. Would an analogous judgment have been delivered today.
You Faux Mr Ashok, or whatever use your real Arabic name, It has been done many times, even happening now in Kashmir, pk, Ram Temple existed on the very same site in Ayodhya before 1528, then Mir Baqi constructed the controversial structure only to be rightfully removed in 1992 as it was on built after removing the ancient shrine.
When it comes to destruction and killing, Muslims have no parallel in history.
Look no further than Godhra! 60 Ram devotees, half of them women and children, burnt to death by frenzied Muslim mob.
Your facts are all mixed up Mr Semi Literate. Stop selective reading. Get aware for real.