Babri Masjid was demolished on December 6, 1992. Not in November. You did not have to remember it in November.

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I have bookmarked it.

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All Best,

Abdullah Khan

Then again , survival rather than remembrances is the most pressing issue for most people,who have to worry about the price of food and clothing (something that has sky rocked in recent past). i mean the daily grind called life is exhausting enough.

Well said!

It is obvious the media exposed some of its own baseness in celebrating 26/11 the way it did.

Following 9/11, America portrayed itself as the world leader in being victims of terror. The Indian television media also for some reason felt obliged to agree to this concept, conveniently forgetting our long periods of suffering from cross border infiltration. But they also secretly desired for an event (with footage, of course) that would enable them to put India on an equal footing with the US in terms of being terror victims (at least). They needed the Indian version of 9/11, badly. They needed something that could be shown up as India’s ugliest wound from terror. Then, 26/11 happened, and Indian TV was ecstatic. People aren’t afraid to go to Mumbai one year on, though they may be scared stiff to step on Kashmiri soil; Mumbai didn’t suffer the economic ruin Kashmir did thanks to terror; but 26/11 is now the most powerful icon of India’s victimization by terror, as designed by the media. Of course, they can’t help but celebrate its anniversary. And one may be excused for wondering whether the media or terror were the greater beneficiaries from the tragedy.

Of course, the US didn’t have its gas tragedy and its mosque destruction. Therefore, it never struck us to eulogise Bhopal and Babri as 3/12 and 6/12.