[Scroll.in]Harsh Mander: Ayodhya dispute was not just about a plot of land – it was about how we imagine India
The 12th century poet-philosopher Basava writes:The richwill make a temple for Siva.What shall I,a poor man,do?My legs are pillars,the body a shrine,the head a cupolaof gold…Centuries later, Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore writes of another temple. Built by a king, this temple “pierces the sky” and houses a “bejewelled idol ...