A house for a god

On December 6, 1992, a horde went and demolished a historical edifice of Babri Masjid. Top echelons of BJP/RSS led the horde. In that melee on that infamous day hoodlums participating in the demolition molested women reporters. When one of the reporters complained to Vajpayee and Advani, they both laughed, offered her sweets and asked her to enjoy the day.

That day was not just of pulling down of the Babri Masjid, it sent the whole country into an infamy from which it never recovered. It created a class of hoodlums, who could not engage in living through any normal means and down the road, they became scaffolds of heinous structure of the Modi machinery. Godhra and the brutality unleashed in its aftermath in Gujarat had its origin to that infamous day. For Modi that was an opportunity to put the country on the road to bring further ruin. 

Those, who abetted and instigated the demolition of Babri Masjid never, faced a reckoning and instead their support among Hindus of India, transformed by hefty doses of mythology on national television, grew exponentially. The god instead of being a concept became a person, who needed to be sheltered in a temple at the exact spot where a heritage building had stood for centuries.

Even after pulling down the structure, they would not let go of the land because their god needed a magnificent structure on the stolen ground. The Allahabad High Court in its sanguineness indulged in a generosity and gave a part of the land to Muslims. Nevertheless, they wanted whole of it with Muslims conveniently shoved away. The Supreme Court of India agreed with them. Only those judges might be able to tell the applied jurisprudence, if any. With the aggressors and usurpers rewarded and the aggrieved party, the Muslims humored with a promise of a land somewhere far off, so as not to offend the god in the proposed grandeur temple. 

In addition, that original architect of the strife, Lal Advani still reports to the court investigating the demolition. Probably that court did not get a memo; the rule of law is no more the law of the land in India. These days it is easy to fall prey to sympathetic emotions towards Advani if one did not remember his cynical politics that changed India from a plural society to an openly parochial land and the trail of bloodshed he had left in the trail. 

That now all has become academic which despised scholars can use for their future theses and papers. Modi is all set to lay a foundation stone of the temple that would house their god. The Nepalese prime minister might have doused them by a claim that their god was actually a Nepalese. Given their current predicament with neighbors, in lieu of Modi's friendship with Trump, India might not be in a position to launch an attack on Nepal anytime soon. 

The day chosen for the foundation stone ceremony for the temple coincides with the day when India deprived Kashmiris the remnants of the autonomy and dismembered the state itself in 2019. That most certainly is not a coincidence rather an out loud message of Hindu hegemony.