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About Vidya Subrahmaniam

Vidya Subrahmaniam is an Indian journalist who writes in the Times of India about political, social and cultural issues.

Articles by Vidya Subrahmaniam

Thursday 6th November

Ayodhya: India's endless curse

Vidya Subrahmaniam, 6 November 2003
The decade-long Hindu nationalist campaign to build a temple on the site of a destroyed mosque in Uttar Pradesh state is motivated less by religious zealotry than by the cynical political calculation of India’s ruling party.

Modern India’s joyous embrace of globalisation – with its attendant bounty of branded white goods, ever-expanding choice of cars, shopping malls and flyways – cannot conceal its ruling class’s obsession with a mythical medieval temple in the town of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh.

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