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youwereneverm1ne · 3 months
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ram ke naam, 1991.
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timetravellingkitty · 3 months
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Baba Lal Das was the pujari appointed by the Lucknow High Court in 1981 to look after the Ram idols placed in Babri Masjid. In the 1992 documentary Ram Ke Naam he criticised the Vishwa Hindu Parishad's agitation of the Hindus to build Ram Mandir and condemned L.K. Advani's Ram Rath Yatra. He was brought in as a key witness in a suit against the VHP and BJP by the Central Bureau of Investigation soon after the demolition of Babri.
He was shot dead an year later.
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whenmemorydies · 9 days
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Thinking about Modi-fan Priyanka Chopra praising Monkey Man just one month after taking her family for a photo op at Narendra Modi and the BJP’s newly consecrated, Hindu nationalist pet project, the Ayodhya Ram Mandir, built on the ruins of the Babri Masjid which was razed by fascist, far-right Hindu supremacists (including many in the RSS) in 1992.
For context: whilst being a stunning action film, Monkey Man has also been lauded for its critique of far-right Hindu nationalism. The defining event triggering the main protagonist’s quest for revenge is the razing of his village and the rape and murder of his activist mother, after a fascist Hindu nationalist guru deems the location a “holy site” and seeks to expropriate the land on which the village sits.
Chopra’s cognitive dissonance is real. And so is her raging self interest.
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curtwilde · 3 months
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Leaving all religious debates aside, Babri Masjid was one of the very few surviving structures from the Sultanate. By destroying Babri Masjid they destroyed the third oldest mosque in the country, evidence of our country's glorious architectural history. Even if, and assuming it is true which is a massive leap of faith, even if a temple had existed there before, does destroying the Babri and giving 18 billion to a Danish company to build a collossal structure over it bring back the original temple? Is this your decolonization?
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daaft-prick-69 · 3 months
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solis-angelus · 2 months
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beta-lactam-allergic · 3 months
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I watched the ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Commission, to avoid confusion with other news agencies with same abbreviation) coverage of the opening of the Ram Mandir tonight (22nd January 2024).
The ABC coverage did not once mention that Ram Mandir is built on the site Hindus believe to be the birthplace of Rama. That this site is one of the most sacred sites in Hinduism.
If I had not followed this story over several years through other sources & just got my insight from that one news story, I would be under the impression that rabid Hindus destroyed a mosque for no reason & built a Hindu Temple on top of the mosque site for no reason other than to hate on Muslims. People who watch that story with no prior knowledge will be under the impression that the Babri Masjid mosque was built on a completely greenfield site. They would have no idea that it was built on the site of a pre-existing Temple to Rama. That the Mughal Empire destroyed an actively used Temple for the religion that their native subjects practiced, so as to put a structure of their own introduced faith on top of that site.
The way the ABC framed that story wasn't balanced. They could have mentioned the sites sacredness to Hinduism whilst still talking about the riots that killed thousands started by Hindus. Neither Hindus nor Muslims were saints in this, nor were either wholly bad, but you wouldn't know that from the way the story was framed.
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kaberic · 3 months
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are you still standing on your feet?
Are you still standing on your feet?
I hope there are a few left on this platform who are staying above this frenzied #rammandir fanaticism that is gripping #india ? I hope there are a few who understand that, just like the wispy existence of God, #ram too is a wispy character, who probably never existed? And even if he did, I hope you know that he banished his pregnant wife to the jungles, trying to please the society? If that is…
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prabodhjamwal · 2 months
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Spirit Of Lord Ram As Envisaged By Likes Of Kabir And Gandhi 'Different From Modi's'
“Bhakti poets presented Lord Ram as an embodiment of universal spirit, a formless God, expression of soul” By Ram Puniyani*   This January 22, a massive spectacle was created when Prime Minister Narendra Modi consecrated the idol of Lord Ram in Ayodhya. Declarations were made that Ram is the soul of India and is the one who united India. Just before this ceremony, some Muslim leaders warned that…
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humanspain · 2 months
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(via Unraveling the Truth Behind the Ram Mandir: A Deep Dive into History, Politics, and Faith)
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curtwilde · 3 months
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If you think Ram Mandir was built on donations this is how the "donations" were collected.
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airrescuersworldwide · 3 months
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