On 5 August 2020, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed the groundbreaking for the Hindu temple of Ram in Ayodhya at the site of violently demolished Babri Mosque. The day was synchronized with the first anniversary of the repeal of Article 370, which had granted limited autonomy to the Muslim majority state of Jammu and […]
History is being rewritten in India. The groundbreaking of Ram temple in Ayodhya with Prime Minister Narendra Modi laying the first brick of the grand temple was a quiet assertion of how India has changed and is likely to change in the coming decades. Outwardly, the country is quiet and calm. There are no protests, […]
I spent my childhood days in the narrow streets of Istanbul’s historical peninsula. My father, a draper by trade, had a small shop located in an old, Armenian-owned building just down the hill from the Grand Bazaar. As an elementary school student, I would spend my summer holidays there, often bored by the constant traffic […]