“How ‘Financial Times’ latest hitjob on Ram Mandir shows new selling point of Western media”, First Post, January 19, 2024:
“In their latest hit piece against the Indian government, the Financial Times continued their descent into desperation as Indian elections are nearing. Marking the mood of the nation, the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya awaits massive footfall as Hindus across the globe await its grand re-opening and the Pran Pratishthan of Sri Rama after over five centuries.
It is this symbol of grand reawakening that has the British publication seething this time. As it is reclaimed from the violent history of the Turkic-Mongol invader Babar and his hordes of Islamic zealots who destroyed one of the most important sites of Hinduism and a monument reminiscent of centuries of history, it is important to remember the thousands of Hindus who fought to retain the intergenerational memory of the temple by visiting and conducting prayers even through Islamic rule and British imperialism.
Generations of the citizens of Ayodhya carried on circumambulating the structure as their ancestors did around the temple, invoking all that the precious site stood for. Numerous attempts to retake it over years include the Nihang Sikhs led by Baba Fakir Singh conducting a hawan and installing a symbol of Sri Bhagwan (Sri Rama) and writing Ram Ram on the walls of the then taken temple that had a mosque built over it…..”
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