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On September 30 was delivered the legal verdict regarding India’s most vexing religious tussle: the controversy around a sacred place in Ayodhya, which millions of Hindus revere as the birthplace of one of their principal gods-Lord Ram. Our correspondent Ramesh Avadhani reports from Lucknow and Ayodhya.
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Indian Muslims are demanding the right to pray in nearly 600 historical mosques across the country which are under the control of the central government for archaeological reasons. Muslim leaders say it is high time the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) permitted their community to pray five times a day in all these mosques if it does believe in religious equality.
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