Editor's Mail by Dina Nath Misri

Dear Editor

This month we will have the din and dust of elections across the nation. The political parties have already been busy maligning, calumnising and throwing mud at each other. And Indians will be subjected to unlimited false promises, and misrepresentations of facts to win votes. The Ayodhya issue is one of the most misrepresented on which those wearing the secular garb are banking to trick the Muslim Vote into their boxes.

It hasn't occurred to anybody that while countless mosques stand all across the country and continue to be built every hour of the day in perfect peace and freedom, why has Babri generated so much heat and State violence?

The basic fact obliviated by political twists and distortions and media superficiality is that the Babri structure was built on a viciously demolished and destroyed Ram temple whose sanctity was the very breath oAf Hindus anywhere, and Ayodhya the abode of the Lord for ever. Babar and his barbaric hordes had to strike a paralysing terror in the minds of the vanquished Indians, and crush their spirit and sentiment to obtain their total servility. So he chose the Ram temple as the people's tenderest spot and tram- pleaded under foot to break and humiliate the Indian nation as no other act could possibly do.

The Babri structure is the living symbol of that humiliation for all true Indians. It has no religious significance. In fact it is against the tenets of Islam in its lofty aspects. By this token those who stand to guard it and those who encourage and prompt them for petty electoral gains can either be carry- ing the genes of those hordes of yore and dreaming of reestablishing the empire; or they are citizens of this country without being zealous of its freedom or pride.

And yet, since passions and base instincts have been inflamed so much as to have blinded and maddened the common folk, let the present Babri structure stay as a reminder, for now and future, of what havoc and festering wounds our past internecine feuds and present self-seekers and traitors have caused. And let a serene and grand and beautiful temple come up, as noble, splendid and strong as Lord Rama, to symbolise the spiritual eminence and religious tolerance and the unity and solidity of Mother India.

Dina Nath Misri

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Courtesy: May 1991, Koshur Samachar