Hindutva Threat to Indian Mosques Grows

17th century edifice in Varanasi faces possible takeover

By: Jyoti Malhotra

A provincial court in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency has allowed a makeshift Hindu temple to come up in the cellar of a 17th-century mosque that is fast becoming the face of a new dispute between Hindus and Muslims, as the Babri Masjid did in Ayodhya some 35 years ago, finally giving way to a grand temple to the Hindu god …