Recently the new ICHR (Indian Council for Historic Research) chief visited Ayodhya, and then went on to make some controversial statements. This of course let to a lot of media coverage and opinion clashes and basically a lot of negative air. However, some expressed their opinion through humous, and one such blog post, by a certain Rajat Datta made my day. I have shared some of the snippets here below.
"... he was able discover everything about Ram just by walking about in that city. All he needed for such revelations, he said, were faith, belief and a complete conviction that history was intuitively his domain."
"Once there was a so-called historian in the ICHR,
who almost became big rock star,
when he went to Ayodhya on a walkabout,
and spotted Ram standing on a redoubt."
"This historian was able to break new ground
when he declared that he had finally found,
the exact spot of Ram’s birthplace,
which had so far vanished without a trace."
"For the hordes of bigoted fanatics,
sanghis, sadhus and other lunatics,
no further proof was necessary,
they had their history’s greatest living accessory."
Ps. Reading the entire blog post is recommended.
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