The Supreme Court’s verdict in the Ayodhya matter has settled the ‘title suit’ in favour of the main Hindu plaintiff – essentially the Vishwa Hindu Parishad – but it is clear that there is much more at stake for the country than the ownership of 2.77 acres of land on which a mosque stood for 470 years until it was demolished in an act of political vandalism unparalleled in the modern world.
In this episode of Beyond the Headlines, Siddharth Varadarajan decodes the essence of the judgment and analyses what the verdict could mean for the future course of politics in India.
