Shardool and Anand’s perspectives on the inauguration of the Ram temple are disconcerting for non-Hindus. Their assertion that their joy is organic seems myopic, as the Ram Janmabhoomi movement was undeniably political, exploited by the BJP for long-term political gains.
The notion of a civilisational wound appears to be a manufactured sentiment first by the British, various leaders of the freedom movement and then the VHP, RSS and their friends, given the scant evidence of a Ram temple at that location or widespread Hindu mourning over its alleged destruction for many centuries.
