The author visited Ayodhya one month after the demolition of Babri mosque by the RSS/Shiv Sena/BJP cadres. It presented a picture of carnage, devastation, criminal participation of the Indian State in it but there were also clear underlining signs that pointed to the fact that secularism was not dead in Ayodhya. But today, on the 27th anniversary of the demolition of the Babri mosque I am not so sure, specially after the Supreme Court judgment on November 9, 2019, handing over the mosque site to those who had razed the mosque. The moral of the story is that what criminals could not achieve on December 6, 1992, has been legitimised by the highest court of justice of India.
The short report is being produced in full, courtesy The Sunday Times of India.
Publication Date: Jan 17, 1993
Publication Name: The Sunday Times of India, Delhi.
December 6, 2019
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