As petitions challenging the 1991 Act flood the apex court, the legal, political, and communal stakes have never been higher. Will history be rewritten, or will the law stand firm?
The embers of controversy which started from Kashi’s Gyanvapi Masjid has spread to many religious places across the country. Mosques are being viewed with suspicion and Hindu adjuncts and remnants are claimed as fragments of sacred Hindu temples of bygone eras.