Letter to BS: Yogi govt starts ringing the temple bells in Uttar Pradesh

The mosque was just 45-years-old when Tulsidas started writing

This refers to “BJP starts ringing temple bells” (August 27). The belief is that the mosque in Ayodhya, demolished in 1992, was constructed in 1528 under the orders of the first Mughal emperor Babar after demolishing a Ram temple that existed at that site earlier. It is, however, not clear as to what is the basis of the belief. 

One of the greatest Ram devotees and the author of his legendary biography Ramcharitmanas was Tulsidas. He commenced writing this great epic in Vikram Samvat 1631 (1573 AD) in the same city of Ayodhya at a spot not far from where