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Today, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi traveled to the northeastern city of Iodia,

which was hung with saffron flags and more than a hundred thousand oil lamps. He came

to lay the first stone of a temple to Ram, an incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu,

who it's believed was born in the city. This isn't the standard fare of a politician

pressing the flash for a photo op. It fulfills a promise Mr. Modi made as a young politician

to return to Iodia only when construction on a new temple began.

In a speech at the dedication broadcast to the whole country, he said the temple would

be a symbol of unity that the weight of centuries ends today.

A symbol of unity, it is not. The weight of centuries as Mr. Modi and his BJP party

see it goes back to the founding of a mosque on the site that was raised to the ground nearly

30 years ago.

When we're talking about Iodia today, we're talking about a very specific place, just a

couple of acres off the center of the town where there was a great big mosque built in

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