The Sangh Parivar only bothers about the voice of the upper caste sadhus and sanyasis, not farmers and labourers.
Uddhav Thackeray’s Ayodhya visit was strategic in more ways than one.
The VHP-RSS failed to give their followers anything new, even as Uddhav took the fight straight to PM Modi’s door.
The UP chief minister is expected to come in handy to take the attention of the people away from real issues into the realm of Hindutva.
We need to get over the hang-up that any expression of identity — ethnic, cultural, linguistic or religious — is necessarily divisive.
By making Faizabad Ayodhya, the Sangh wants to emphasise ‘Hindu glory’ and ‘Muslim otherness’. But it will ignore broken roads, crowded hospitals and lack of schools.
The visit of South Korean First Lady Kim Jung-sook has solidified the ties between New Delhi and Seoul.
Awadh’s first nawab Saadat Ali Khan, who built Faizabad in 1730, made no attempt to give any new name to Ayodhya.
Demand for a law to construct a temple at the disputed site is injustice to the very idea of the legal system.
While fuelling politics, the Ram Temple-Babri Masjid dispute has claimed multiple lives. Even as netas now make threats over it, in a civilised country, only the law should prevail.
