Dear Bapu,
In his speech at the Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan in Ayodhya, Prime Minister Narendra Modi likened the Ram Mandir movement to the freedom struggle and invoked your name, Mahatma Gandhi, to say people from all walks support the temple just as they all joined Gandhi in the movement for independence.
What would you make of the Ram Mandir which will be built on the ruins of the Babri Masjid, the mosque which was demolished in an act which the Supreme Court in 2017 called “crimes that shake the secular fabric of the Constitution”? You were the torchbearer of non-violence. For you it was always the means that justified the end. You called off the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1920-22 because it Read More
