The Daily Guardian
The Bhoomi Pujan for the proposed Shri Ram Temple in Ayodhya is scheduled to take place in five days, marking the culmination of a five-century old indigenous movement to reclaim a site which is of both religious and civilizational importance…
Continue reading The places of Worship Act 1991, decoloniality and indigenous rights
The New Indian Express
A patient reading of the Ayodhya judgment delivered by a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court last November may lead one to reasonably conclude that its discussion on the Places of Worship Act, 1991 (“the PoW Act”) was irrelevant to both the factual and legal matrices of the case …
Continue reading Ayodhya verdict and the places of worship act
In the first post on this blog, I had highlighted the patent error in the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya Verdict. I had pointed out that the Constitution Bench had erroneously assumed that an extract on the PoW Act from a previous SC decision reproduced by Justice D.V.Sharma in the 2010 Allahabad High Court verdict, was an …
On November 15, 2019, I wrote a piece for the Open Magazine titled “The Eternity of the Deity” critiquing the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya verdict specifically for the manner in which Roman and English jurisprudence was employed to vest a Hindu Deity with legal personage. I had argued in the piece that had the Court drawn …
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