Hindus across India celebrate as the Ram temple inauguration in January 2024 marks a historic event.

Prime Minister Modi's address outside the temple echoes the sentiment of a great blessing of Lord Ram that we are living this moment,

witnessing it happen. Today, the days, directions and all the corners of the days, directions, and all the corners of the world, everything is filled with

divinity. This time is not ordinary. The Ram temples opening sparked nationwide fervor, but amidst the celebration

underlying fault lines within Indian society appeared to widen. The temple was constructed on a disputed site where once the

Baprimaschit stood before it was illegally destroyed by Hindu hardliners in 1992.

They argued the mosque itself had been intentionally built on top of a temple that marked

the spot where the Lord Ram was said to have been born.

India's Supreme Court ruled in favour of the Hindus.

Prime Minister Modi wasted no time

in being able to politically capitalize on the BBC World Service. I'm Divia Aria and in this edition of Heart and Soul, I'm in India.

As the world's largest democracy gears up for an election,

which is predicted to see the current Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Modi

return for a record-breaking third term.

Even though the pollsters seem united in their belief, being on the ground in India,

it certainly doesn't always feel as united as the statistics suggest.

However, in the program, we are not investigating age-old tensions between Hindus and Muslims,

but looking at division amongst Hindus themselves, and particularly

across cast lines.

Hindu me,

and Brahmer me is.

He is only jin kjal there. And that's only jinke jal there. And two more khati. This is a social media real.

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