#INDIA: PM Narendra Modi dedicates a new temple to the Hindu God Ram on the site of a burned down mosque in 1992 & What is to be done? Sadanand Dhume, WSJ AEI
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🗓️ 26 January 2024
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#INDIA: PM Narendra Modi dedicates a new temple to the Hindu God Ram on the site of a burned down mosque in 1992 & What is to be done? Sadanand Dhume, WSJ AEI
https://www.wsj.com/articles/modi-ayodhya-and-the-fall-of-nehrus-secular-temple-election-sectarian-religious-strife-092f43a8?mod=hp_opin_pos_2&mkt_tok=NDc1LVBCUS05NzEAAAGQ0HHbJlErfPwjl-we-zb72f7k6Ey1BLozB8w7-XEsH52IgfnDh2pqRlDipoHad5nwevwJHYGgT21R_ay0wef_SzV0LsvRn6Aeh_nxqMyDezvzUA#cxrecs_s
1865 Kolkata
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI and the world. I'm John Bachelor. To India. |
| 0:09.0 | Norengra Modi is extremely powerful, very, very popular and running for election again. |
| 0:15.8 | He's been in authority since 2014. |
| 0:19.9 | There is a visual, I recommend to everyone on the internet of Norengramodi at a new temple, a new Hindu |
| 0:27.9 | temple to the god Ram and he's walking by himself across an entryway carrying what I presume were flowers but in any |
| 0:36.4 | event it's very it's very solemn and festive at the same time. I learned from Sadenandoume that this event, I just saw it quickly and I didn't attach it to all of these predicates. |
| 0:50.0 | This event is the culmination of at least decades of a contest between Hindus and Muslims and probably centuries. |
| 1:00.0 | Sat in on a very good evening to you, there is now a Hindu temple to the god Ram where there was once a mosque and therein lies a tragedy. |
| 1:09.0 | When the mosque was restored, destroyed at first was 1992. That's all the history we can handle at the open. What happened |
| 1:16.9 | since 92 that Norengramodi is now dedicating the new temple? Good |
| 1:21.2 | evening to you. Very good evening, John. |
| 1:24.0 | So yes, so the dispute goes back before 1992, |
| 1:28.0 | but if we just, you know, for our purposes start at 1992, |
| 1:32.0 | in 1992, for our purposes start at 1992. |
| 1:32.7 | In 1992, a large mob of Hindu activists gathered at the site |
| 1:41.0 | and essentially destroyed the, they destroyed the mosque using crowbars, pickaxes, their bare hands, |
| 1:49.4 | and they brought it down and that was a kind of pivotal moment in independent Indian history. |
| 1:56.4 | After the demolition, |
| 1:58.0 | the, what had been a legal dispute |
| 2:00.6 | between Hindus and Muslims continued to work its way through the courts. |
| 2:04.8 | And to cut a long story short, in 2019, the Indian Supreme Court finally gave the |
| 2:12.3 | piece of land on which that mosque had stood to the |
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