21 Good articles are put together by the Wire at https://thewire.in/tag/the-babri-demolition/
The Babri
Demolition
BY JAWID LAIQ ON 16/12/2017 • 6 COMMENTS
The overwhelming majority of India’s Hindus have repeatedly
shown that they are not willing to be swayed by anti-Muslim sentiments.
The delay had prompted the Supreme Court in April 2017 to pass
an extraordinary order to expedite the trial and deliver the judgment “within a
period of two years”.
BY APOORVANAND ON 12/12/2017 • 6 COMMENTS
Is it dharma to oust someone from their holy place?
BY KRISHNA
PRATAP SINGH ON 11/12/2017 • 6 COMMENTS
The period of VHP’s belligerent build-up to the Babri Masjid
destruction saw the rise of a mainstream ‘kar sevak’ media which destroyed the
very fundamentals of journalism by becoming an active participant in furthering
intolerance.
BY HARSH MANDER ON 09/12/2017 • 5 COMMENTS
It is the people of India who have to pick up the pieces and
reclaim the inclusive pluralist traditions of this ancient diverse land.
BY LALIT
VACHANI ON 08/12/2017 • 2 COMMENTS
In studying the Sangh parivar for my film, I encountered the
disciplined manner in which the December 6, 1992 operation was planned.
BY SADANAND
MENON ON 08/12/2017 • 1 COMMENT
The well-planned destruction of the Babri Masjid 25 years ago
was a dress rehearsal for further acts of vandalism that are in store. No
wonder the assault on witnesses like photographers and smashing of their
cameras felt like a ‘blinding of the nation’.
BY SAJEDA MOMIN ON 07/12/2017 • 1 COMMENT
The police standing guard did not move from their place, as if
they had been ordered to remain mute spectators.
BY THE WIRE
STAFF ON 07/12/2017 • 1 COMMENT
Arfa Khanum Sherwani speaks to Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, senior
associate editor of Frontline, and Ruchira Gupta, professor at New York
University, who were both in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992.
An excerpt from Krishna Jha and Dhirendra K. Jha’s Ayodhya – The
Dark Night that uncovers the story of how the mosque had turned into a temple
overnight.
What is a nation worth if my friend is scared of returning home?
What is a religion worth if it rejoices in the humiliation of another religion?
BY HILAL AHMED ON 07/12/2017 • LEAVE A COMMENT
To examine the diverse engagements of Muslim groups with
postcolonial political realities, one has to give up the Babri Masjid-centric
grand narrative of Islam in India.
BY THOMAS
BLOM HANSEN ON 07/12/2017 • 6 COMMENTS
The spiral of violence triggered by the Babri demolition reached
new heights in the Bombay riots.
BY THE WIRE
STAFF ON 06/12/2017 • 2 COMMENTS
At an event organised by The Wire, journalists who reported on
the Babri Masjid demolition 25 years ago talked about their experiences, from
having their equipment broken to being sexually assaulted.
BY MEENA MENON ON 06/12/2017 • LEAVE A COMMENT
“Though the riots are in the past, they have left a mark. People
have moved on but after the series of mob lynchings, there is fear once again.”
BY N.S MADHAVAN ON 06/12/2017 • 3 COMMENTS
As the news from Ayodhya throws a newsroom into turmoil, an
editor uses his pen like a chisel. We reproduce here the much-acclaimed story
Blue Pencil by N.S Madhavan, translated from Malayalam by the author himself.
BY ARSHAD
AFZAAL KHAN ON 06/12/2017 • 4 COMMENTS
In the Ayodhya riots that followed the Babri Masjid demolition,
18 Muslims were murdered, almost all their houses and shops were torched and
destroyed.
BY SAQUIB SALIM ON 06/12/2017 • 1 COMMENT
Jagan Nath Azad’s poems condemning the demolition of the mosque
say that the event tore apart India’s secular culture, one shaped through
centuries of assimilation.
BY MANOJ MITTA ON 06/12/2017 • 2 COMMENTS
It did nothing to hold to account the BJP leaders who gave false
assurances to the court before the Ayodhya demolition.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is deliberately prolonging
the trial while the BJP does its best to use the Ayodhya dispute to once again
stoke the flames of hatred.
BY APOORVANAND ON 05/12/2017 • 11 COMMENTS
The Babri Masjid was torn apart in broad daylight while the
executive and judiciary watched, and those behind the demolition went on to be
elected as the rulers of the country.
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