At a time when the BJP s stars are at the top on the eve of the Lok Sabha polls, the Puri-Joshimath Sankaracharyas may have kick-started a row whose efforts might be to divide Hindus, not in the name of castes, but on what passes for greater belief, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
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'January 22, 2024, is as important for the country as August 15, 1947,' Champat Rai, general secretary of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, told reporters on Saturday
In the 11th Century C.E, when the Muslim marauders first set foot on their karma bhoomi, the Hindus, as noted by Al-Biruni, were wont to proclaim that there is no country but theirs, no nation like theirs, no kings like theirs, no religion like theirs, and no science like theirs . However, eight-hundred years of Islamic consolidation in their land followed by nearly two-hundred years of Christian colonization of it that eventually led to its partition saw the Hindus fall from those heights of self-belief into the valley of doubt.