FOR one and a half decades, the Ram temple at Ayodhya has been at the centre of the fascist drive for power. Between 1987 and 1992, a massive campaign was waged, to "prove" the claim that Ram, the hero of the myth Ramayana, had been born in Ayodhya, on the spot where Mir Baqi, a general of Babar, had built a mosque.
Will China shake the world?
15 April 2002, byLiu Yufan concludes his analysis of the state and civil society in contemporary China (see IV 338 for part one).