Preface Two key themes emerged from my scores of conversations with the people of Ayodhya on a fairly recent trip to the Punyabhumi, the birthplace of Parabrahma Swaroopa Sri Ramachandra. 1. The moment I mentioned the word “Babri Masjid,” the reply was the same from every person: “Kaun sa Masjid?
A high-level portrait describing the cultural atmosphere of Bharatavarsha before the assault of Nehruvian secularism
Recalling the heroic fight that Sri Lokanath Misra put up against secularism in the Constituent Assembly debates
For all his copious verbal and textual nonsense, even Jawaharlal Nehru, the Granddaddy of secularism in India, couldn’t have come up with the stealthy genius of Salim-Javed who so subtly, insidiously promoted Islamism in mainstream cinema in the garb of secularism and the “Hindu-Muslim Bhai bhai” template.
We’ve seen how extraordinarily accurate Sitaram Goel was in his assessment of Jawaharlal Nehru whom he characterized as “a bloated Brown Sahib” and “the combined embodiment of all the imperialist ideologies Islam, Christianity, White Man’s Burden, and Communism.” We had paused the previous part of this series with