In Ayodhya, the fall of Indian secularism

India’s desecularisation under Modi has reached a point of no return.

Seventy-five years after the idols of Lord Ram appeared out of nowhere in the sanctum sanatorium of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, and 32 years after the mosque was razed to the ground by a mob of Hindutva apologists, a grand consecration ceremony is being organised on Monday, January 22, to mark a so-called homecoming of the lord of the Treta Yug. Thousands of invitations have been sent to the mighty and famous of cricket, cinema, business, and politics to attend the ceremony, hundreds of private jets have been booked by the wealthy and powerful to reach Ayodhya, and shops in Ayodhya and various cities of the country have run out of gold-plated idols of Lord Ram. And there is just one person hogging the limelight more than Lord Ram himself, and that is Narendra Damodardas Modi, the Prime Minister of the secular democratic republic of India.