Start your Sunday evening with It’s Tracking Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know by Noam Cohen:
A favorite pastime of Internet users is to share their location: services like Google Latitude can inform friends
when you are nearby; another, Foursquare, has turn ed reporting these updates into a game.
…But as a German Green party politician, Malte Spitz, recently learned, we are already continually being tracked whether we volunteer to be or not. Cellphone companies do not typically divulge how much information they collect, so Mr. Spitz went to court to find out …

On the eve of Deepavali, please read and think about these excerpts from Radha Rajan’s thought-provoking article on Ayodhya and why its reclamation has a direct bearing on the Hindu identity (emphasis added):
From “Ayodhya – Deciding Battle for the Hindu Nation“:
Nations, nation-states, religions and civilizations in their entirety have been irretrievably wiped off the face of the earth by Islam and the Church; while there is no vestige of pre-Islamic and pre-Christian religions in Rome, Greece, America and Africa, the Hindu nation, even after the combined onslaught of Islam, the …

Dear All: Ahead of the judgement, opening this thread on Ayodhya with this piece of breaking news (unverified):

Indian high court rules that key piece of land disputed by Hindus and Muslims goes in favor of Hindus – al Jazeera TV
Comments, views and thoughts welcome. Pl keep it polite and civil. Thank you all.
P.S. Courtesy, CenterofRight, I learn that:
Ayodhya, Ayodhya Verdict and Allhabad high court trending worldwide on twitter
Nice.
Related Posts: Revisiting Ram Janmabhoomi: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
Also read: Proof of temple found at …

Important Note: I am not privy to any *inside information* on the Ram Janmabhoomi case. What follows is based on a personal hypothesis and instinct.  Below, a likely (unlikely?) sequence of events in the Ram Janmabhoomi case:

The “verdict” in the title suit case goes in favour of Hindus. The court accepts the historical evidence regarding a Mandir at the site which was demolished
Hindus rejoice
All political parties appeal for calm
Official machinery put in full gear to ensure no flare up of violence or riots
The Congress party can now claim to have …

This post was triggered by Vir Sanghvi’s misleading article “Ayodhya for dummies” that he wrote in response to his “younger readers…(who are) mystified by the fuss and annoyed by the refusal of journos to tell them what it (Liberhan Report) was all about”
RC has already done a masterful dissection of Vir Sanghvi’s seemingly clever play with words. So I will limit myself to a specific flippant remark made by Vir Sanghvi viz. “…Hindu kings destroyed Buddhist monasteries, more or less throwing Buddhism out of India”
Before I begin, I must stress …

Please read this post in continuation of Revisiting Ram Janmabhoomi – Part II and Revisiting Ram Janmabhoomi – Part I.
This post contains further references and evidence supporting the presence of a ShriRam Mandir at the disputed site. In the next part, I will strive to summarise evidence exchanged between VHP and AIBMAC in 1991. I believe the VHP subsequently submitted a rejoinder in reponse to AIBMAC’s evience but the the AIBMAC did not do so – I am not absolutely certain of this though so if any of you …

Readers would remember that in Part – I of this series, I had promised to share some notes on this issue and a summary of historical/ archaeological evidence.
In this Part (Part – II), I have made an attempt at explaining the backdrop to a very complex situation in an easy-to-understand and hopefully well articulated, manner citing historical and archaeological evidence. Most of what I have noted below is extracted from various arguments that have been put forward in support of reclaiming the Janmabhoomi.
In the following part (Part III), I will …

For the past several months, I have been thinking of digging up some old articles from this blog on the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi issue.
Then, this not-so-widely-reported news from last week finally forced me into action (Hat Tip: Sanjay)
From The Telepgraph story titled, Azad brother for Ram temple (the bit that caught my attention is in bold):
Srinagar, April 12: Top Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s younger brother today announced his entry into the BJP with support to the Ram temple. Ghulam Ali had joined the BJP some days ago allegedly after …

I doubt if this piece will ever find its way to Hon. Thiru Karunanidhi but if it does, he will have good reasons to re-consider his earlier remarks (emphasis mine):
Who is this Ram?
From which engineering college he graduated? Is there any proof for this?
What follows is by far one of the best (and most extensive) piece of research I have yet come across on the historicity of Ramar Sethu and Lord Shri Rama.
It is a fairly long post (even though I have only taken�excerpts) – but please do read …

A well-wisher�alerted me to this�statement made by�senior advocate Shri K Parasaran�in the Supreme Court�last week:
“Government should avoid causing any damage to the “Ram Setu” as it might leave a permanent scar in the minds of people like the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya….“
I am amazed…
Notice the multiple levels of mixing up, confusion and juxtapositioning that is going on here…
The matter of of Rama Sethu has somehow been clubbed with Babri Masjid,� juxtaposing the demolition of Babri Masjid that happended WITHOUT any government or official sanction with�the destruction of Ram …