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The demolition of pluralism

What Mr Mukhopadhyay wants to achieve with this book is perhaps to ask ourselves what idea of India we carry in our hearts

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Book Cover (The Demolition and the Verdict: Ayodhya and the Project to Reconfigure India)

Saurabh Sharma
The Demolition and the Verdict: Ayodhya and the Project to Reconfigure India 
Author: Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
Publisher: Speaking Tiger
Price: Rs 699 
Pages: 336

In her TED talk, “The Danger of a Single Story,” Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke about how children are “impressionable and vulnerable” in the face of a story. As a nineties child, if I have to point out one such story, it would be Ramanand Sagar’s blockbuster TV series Ramayana.

My family, like thousands all over India, would be glued to their seats when its episodes would run on Doordarshan. Back then I had no idea that there were over a thousand