“ASI gyan on Gyanvapi has finally nailed a lie”, First Post, January 27, 2024:
“The ASI report says its recent survey of the Gyanvapi premises revealed 34 inscriptions on spolia used in the mosque commissioned by Aurangzeb, in Devanagari, Grantha, Telugu and Kannada, and that they mention deities such as Rudra, Uměśvara and Janardhana. It also claims that sculptures of Hindu deities and carved architectural members were found buried under the soil in a cellar inside the compound.
A stray remark by my young Bihari driver in Kolkata added a new dimension the issue of the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, for me. Only, he was talking about Ayodhya, not Kashi. Voicing his intention to visit Ayodhya with some of his friends as soon as the rush wanes a bit, he was surprised to learn from me that there used to be a Mughal-era masjid on the spot where the new grand Ram Mandir now beckons a wide range of devout Indians.
What followed, obviously, was a potted history of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, which he listened to with a mixture of concern and amazement. Why was a mosque built where Sri Ramji was born, he asked, clearly unaware of the tumultuous events of the early 16th century, much less the last decade of the 20th century. Born in the 1990s, he was also bemused by the fact that there could be any resistance to a Ram temple being built there again…..”
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