“Something has shifted, something has changed, something has broken in India after the momentous ruling on the disputed land in Ayodhya.”

I wrote these words days after the unanimous historic ruling by a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court in 2019 that awarded the entire site, where once stood the imposing medieval Babri Masjid, to Hindu litigants for building there a temple to Ram. The mosque had been brought down by marauding mobs in the winter of 1992, a demolition that many feel was the most tragic day in free India’s history after the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi.

These words returned to haunt me many times in recent months.

First, after the judge who came out as the author of the unsigned verdict claimed that it was god who guided him in writing that judgement, and that he i

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