{"id":2761,"date":"2003-05-25T16:15:22","date_gmt":"2003-05-25T10:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/25\/secrets-of-the-shrine\/"},"modified":"2003-05-25T16:15:22","modified_gmt":"2003-05-25T10:45:22","slug":"secrets-of-the-shrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200305\/secrets-of-the-shrine\/","title":{"rendered":"Secrets of the Shrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/full.asp?fodname=20030602&#038;fname=Cover Story &#37;28F&#37;29&#038;sid=1\">Outlook<\/a> has a report on how the excavations in Ayodhya are proceeding. The article portrays a &#8220;balanced&#8221; view, i.e, it makes it seem as if the pro and anti-mandir guys are squabbling over the interpretation of the evidence that is turning up. But to me it is looking as if there is pretty strong evidence in favour of a temple turning up and the anti-mandir guys scoffing at them, claiming that the evidence is not yet enough. My bias may be showing, you decide.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the historical question of what Babur did in the 16th century is different from the ethical question of what we should do now. I think that there is evidence that Babur indeed demolished a temple to build the mosque in question, but that does not mean that Hindus should have returned the compliment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outlook has a report on how the excavations in Ayodhya are proceeding. The article portrays a &#8220;balanced&#8221; view, i.e, it makes it seem as if the pro and anti-mandir guys are squabbling over the interpretation of the evidence that is turning up. But to me it is looking as if there is pretty strong evidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}