PB Mehta writes: Ayodhya's Ram temple is founded on something akin to an act of terrorism

PB Mehta writes: Ayodhya's Ram temple is founded on something akin to an act of terrorism

PB Mehta writes: Ayodhya’s Ram temple is first real colonisation of Hinduism by political power

AUGUST 5, 2020 12:00:49 PM

They will say Ram is a national symbol, a symbol of Hindu pride. But did Ram consent to being converted to something as banal and nasty as the symbol of an ethnic nationalism? Ayodhya’s Ram temple is a monument to exclusion, a brute majoritarianism subordinating others.