I don’t get it. Clearly a lot of people around me are not happy with the Ayodhya judgment… and I’m trying hard to understand why, but there seem to be few clues as of now.
Many of the reactions coming in seem to suggest that something of an injustice has been done to the minority Muslims, while those miscreants who brought down the Masjid in 92 have been allowed to go scot-free. I don’t get it though… was this trial about punishing the miscreants or about the land? And if it was about the land and who it rightfully belongs to, what pray is wrong with the judgment?
Apparently the ASI has clearly stated that they found remains of a massive Hindu religious structure below the Masjid. Whatever this structure may have been, does it really matter as long as it existed and was holy to the Hindus? Would it somehow become more acceptable to the so called secular junta if it was something more believable than Ram janambhoomi or Sita ki rasoi? After all what about Indian mythology is believable? The setu floating across the ocean? Or the vanar sena? Or arrows spewing fire? Yet the Ramayana is one of Hinduism’s holiest texts. Isn’t ridiculing the idea of Ram janambhoomi a bit like standing in judgment? Isn’t it enough that the place was, for whatever reasons, holy for a particular community?
What does amaze me however is the language of the court judgment. They actually seem to mention it as the birthplace of Ram. What I’d like to know is, which piece of evidence proves this conclusively?
Then again, there is no denying that the Muslim community was wronged in 92. The same trial could have gone on and the same verdict reached without the demolition of the dome of the Masjid. That was an unnecessary act of aggression and most reprehensible. And most certainly everyone involved in it, including the politicians who fanned the mob fury should be brought to book. However that is a separate matter altogether and therefore a separate trial.
That bring us to the Nirmohi akhara. Now that I am bowled over by. I read several articles on several sites trying to figure out what this mysterious akhara is. Sadly everyone is more concerned about the Mandir- Masjid argument.
Oh well! Turn the monument into a national monument, I say. Let it not be functioning mandir or masjid… God knows there are plenty of those around in this country! Turn it into a museum with a detailed history explained in multimedia installations. Let the next generation learn from the past and take away a message of religious tolerance.
