25 Years On, India has still to live down the shame of the Babri Masjid’s Demolition

The CBI is deliberately prolonging the criminal trial while the BJP does its best to use the Ayodhya dispute to once again stoke the flames of hatred. Twenty five years after the demolition of the Babri Masjid, The Wire, through a series of articles and videos captures how the act of destruction changed India forever. India is perhaps the only country in the world where a real crime – committed in broad daylight, with evidence recorded by video cameras and presented in court by prosecutors – counts for less than an imaginary transgression that…

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