Ram's denigration is a political project

Ever since Ramayana was serialised on TV in 1986-87 leading to an unprecedented revival of religiosity among Hindus in post-independence India, Marxist ideologues have been disoriented by the threat to their intellectual hegemony. To their further dismay, the surge of devotion for Ram was quickly capitalised by LK Advani. His epic Rath Yatra from Somnath in 1989, although aborted in Samastipur before it could reach its intended destination, generated near-hysteric fervour across the country culminating in the demolition of the Babri Masjid which stood at the spot widely believed to have been the exact place of god-king Ramachandra’s birth.

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