The streets resulting in India’s most contested non secular web site are going full throttle. Hindu clergymen combine with barefooted pilgrims chanting the names of deities. Armed officers patrol the town of Ayodhya from watchtowers and checkpoints.
On a sprawling development web site, bulldozers tear into the earth and males use drills to chisel slabs of stone. They’ve labored round the clock to arrange for Monday’s consecration of a controversial temple on Hindu holy land the place an historic mosque as soon as stood, an event Prime Minister Narendra Modi final week known as the achievement of “goals that many generations have cherished for years.”