India, Aug. 8 -- On August 5, like a victor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi strode to the Ramjanambhoomi complex, recently rescued from its disputed status by a flawed and highly controversial judgment of the Supreme Court that gave the control of the land to the Hindus, and laid the foundation stone of a Ram Temple.
Through this well publicized act, beamed live from Ayodhya by all Indian TV channels, Narendra Modi made it known to all the contempt he had of the country's secular constitution and many Supreme Court judgments that upheld the separation of Church and State. It seemed BJP and Modi used democracy as a ploy to capture power and all the institutions of the State to turn the country into a 'Hindu State'. A pliant and obsequious jud...