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  • 2/3/2024

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00:00 Outlook brings to you excerpts from the issue titled 'In the Name of Ram'
00:04 It analyses the narrative of Ayodhya
00:07 What was, what is and where will it go from here?
00:11 From the introduction by the editorial desk
00:14 Orange country
00:16 With the consecration of the Ram Lalla Idol in Ayodhya
00:19 which is being celebrated as a national festival no less
00:23 The BJP is letting no flag unfurled
00:27 Markets are awash with saffron fluttering
00:29 Many institutions have been given a holiday
00:32 The party organised celebrations from Sydney to Toronto
00:36 The Ram Janbhumi movement has come a full circle for the BJP in the last 40 years
00:42 The party's two members of parliament in 1984
00:46 have now versioned to occupy most of the parliament
00:49 With the temple consecration coming close to the general elections
00:53 Most political pundits are predicting a return to power of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
00:59 But how will the temple movement pan out after Ayodhya?
01:03 Will the BJP go ahead with Krishna Janmabhumi in Mathura
01:07 The Gyanvyapi Mosque in Varanasi
01:09 The Eidgah in Hubbali, Karnataka
01:12 And many other such contentious sites
01:15 The Babri Mosque Ram Janmabhumi dispute was to be an exception
01:19 The Places of Worship (Special Provisions Act of 1991)
01:24 prohibits conversion of any place of worship
01:27 and to provide for the maintenance of the religious character
01:30 of any place of worship as it existed on the 15th day of August 1947
01:37 Will the party use the argument that laws cannot be above public sentiments
01:42 and proceed to right what it perceives as wrongs committed centuries ago?
01:49 For this and more, read the latest issue of Outlook.

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