25 years of Babri demolition: Unleashing of a majoritarian beast

As mobs going on a rampage, killing and lynching in the name of Mother India, Holy Cow or some mythical queen, the ideological agenda behind "unleashing the beast" seems to have taken the centre stage

A quarter of a century later – having witnessed the Iraq war and the events like 9/11 – one has a clearer idea why the demolition of a 500-year-old mosque by kar sevaks continues to haunt India? Such moments signal the unleashing of a beast that lurks underneath all mixed societies and nations. And, it awaits hands to unchain and set it free. What happened in Ayodhya on 6 December 1992 was no freak show. It was a violent, symbolic and well planned demolition of a structure at the hands of political manipulators. It systematically removed all the barriers of law and