The unveiling of the temple is meant to celebrate both the new age of Ram in Ayodhya and Indian primacy in Kashmir
IT TOOK RAM and his most loyal followers 14 years in exile—followed by travels up and down the Indian subcontinent, with demons to outwit and armies to defeat—before they could return him victorious to his kingdom of Ayodhya. That homecoming is still celebrated today, though the events depicted in the Ramayana epic are said to have happened more than 800,000 years ago.
Mr Modi will have the honour of lifting into place the foundation stone for the new temple, a 40kg silver brick. The stagecraft will be slightly muted by precautions imposed by the covid-19 pandemic, but still a grand mixture of high symbolism both sacred and profane.
August 5th, then, is meant to go down as a kind of dual holiday: celebrating both the new age of Ram in Ayodhya and Indian primacy in Kashmir. The public ardour that once characterised the Ayodhya movement has dimmed substantially since the mosque was torn down. It ceased winning elections for the BJP almost overnight, and by 2019, when the Muslims who opposed building a Hindu temple on its rubble were vanquished in court, nary a public protest was raised.
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