Varanasi and Mathura, new Ayodhya in the making

After Ayodhya, the focus is now on Varanasi and Mathura where a mosque and temple exist next to each other.  Though the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 says that all places of worship in the country would remain as they were on August 15, 1947, a court has asked the Archaeological Survey of India to investigate if the mosque was built over the debris of a temple.  Journalist and social activist A J PHILIP hopes that the courts would step in to stop … Continue reading Varanasi and Mathura, new Ayodhya in the making