Temple & State: 2 consecrations 73 yrs apart & lessons they hold for secularism & cultural identity

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Seventy three years ago, a consecration like the one in Ayodhya stirred up a storm with some calling it an erosion of India's secular credentials and others hailing it as the restoration of a broken link from the past. In Episode 1384 of Cut The Clutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks back at that epoch-making event & the lessons it held for Indians irrespective of who they pray to.

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3:00 - 'This faith & creative energy are more powerful than all armies and emperors of this world'

6:30 - Locks of Babri Masjid were opened in February 1986

10:00 - Congress believed Babri demolition cost party Muslim vote in Hindi heartland

14:05 - 'To have a glimpse of God or truth, it is not necessary for all men to follow one and only one path'

20:40 - 'Religious intolerance can't have any other consequence but to produce bitterness, immorality'

25:30 - 'Our attempt is not to rectify history but to proclaim anew our attachment to the faith'