Letter to the Readers —Continued advance of Hindutva has been chipping away at the secular republic of India ever since Dec 6, 1992

Letter to the readers:

The dismantling of the secular republic of India began 33 years ago, when a mob of thousands of Hindu extremists associated with Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Rashtra SwayamSevak Sangh (RSS) demolished the Babri mosque in Uttar Pradesh on December 6, 1992, in full public view. It was a high point of a political campaign by Hindu fundamentalists, along with the BJP leaders, to construct a temple to Lord Rama at the site of the 15th-century Babri mosque in Ayodhya. The mosque