Babri Masjid

Essays

On the Eve of the Ayodhya Bhoomi Puja: Remembering Sita Ram Goel

On the Eve of the Ayodhya Bhoomi Puja: Remembering Sita Ram Goel

As the much-awaited Bhoomi Puja takes place tomorrow at Ayodhya, an essay commemorating the outstanding contribution made by the fine scholar and historian Sita Ram Goel to Hindu civilisational resurgence.

Tarikh-i-Habibi: The Dénouement of Irfan Habib

Tarikh-i-Habibi: The Dénouement of Irfan Habib

Concluding part of the series tracing the career, scholarship and the destructive role played by Irfan Habib in the Indian cultural and historical discourse

How the Marxist Eminent Historians Created a Gated Community of Traitors: The Conclusion

How the Marxist Eminent Historians Created a Gated Community of Traitors: The Conclusion

Marxist historians have inflicted a multi-layered deception on the national psyche which has disfigured the minds of at least three generations of Indians.

The Secular Reportage They Inflicted: Tracking the English Media Narrative of the 1990s on the Ram Janmabhoomi Movement: An Introduction

The Secular Reportage They Inflicted: Tracking the English Media Narrative of the 1990s on the Ram Janmabhoomi Movement: An Introduction

Outgoing Supreme Court Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi’s remarkable and just judgment on the Sri Ram Mandir episode has finally brought closure to a long and avoidable controversy and has inaugurated a new epoch in the history of Santana civilization. Yet, a section of the Muslim community are stubbornly irrefragable,

The Tapas of Half a Millennium has Culminated in a Civilizational Landmark

The Tapas of Half a Millennium has Culminated in a Civilizational Landmark

With one stroke of his pen, Chief Justice Sri Ranjan Gogoi has perhaps earned what the Skaanda Purana says in its Phala Shruti: श्रुत्वा श्रीराम विजयम् पाप बाधात्प्रमुच्यते । तथैव शृङ्खला बन्धात्

How the Secular Historians Transformed Punyabhumi Ayodhya into an International Crime Scene and Got Away With it

How the Secular Historians Transformed Punyabhumi Ayodhya into an International Crime Scene and Got Away With it

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?

The Worst Nightmare of the Congress Party is the Building of the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya

The Worst Nightmare of the Congress Party is the Building of the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has bombed Article 370 and 35A into the dustbin of history thereby paving way for the complete integration of Kashmir into the rest of Bharatavarsha. But this is only a sacred Dharma that has just begun. It will reach its completion and fruition when Kashmir will

It’s Nearly Five Hundred Years: Sri Ramachandra is Awaiting his Return to his Own Home

It’s Nearly Five Hundred Years: Sri Ramachandra is Awaiting his Return to his Own Home

IF there’s one person who has his finger on the pulse of Hindu pusillanimity, inertia and self-imposed helplessness with deadly accuracy, it is Sri Sri Asaduddin Owaisi. Here’s what he said in the wake of the Supreme Court’s latest pronouncement on the Ayodhya case. Asaduddin Owaisi,

What Sitaram ji Said: An Introduction

What Sitaram ji Said: An Introduction

Without doubt, Ram Swarup, Sitaram Goel and Arun Shourie (before he irreversibly slid down the oily wall of slathered ambition and reached his current position) occupy places of deserved eminence in the pantheon of what is crudely known as Hindu revivalism after India attained freedom from about a thousand years