“The book that begins with ‘we, the people of India’ is the God that we failed || Raja and rishi are no longer”: With a picture of the Constitution, and a white-on-black headline, ‘The Telegraph’ says India witnessed a “ritual merger of the Church and State” in Ayodhya. @ttindia 
“PM fulfils nation’s aspiration”: ‘The Hitavada’ reflects the sentiment of the city it is located in (Nagpur) and the politics of its owners. Only a handful of English newspapers in Kashmir and the Northeast, play down the ground-breaking ceremony in Ayodhya for the Ram Temple.
“Stone laid for ‘Hindu rashtra’”: the clear-eyed headline of the CPI(M) mouthpiece in Kerala, ‘Deshabhimani’, edited by former Rajya Sabha member and ‘Sansad Ratna’, P. Rajeev: tinyurl.com/y52ga6x9
In performing the rites @narendramodi appropriated the role of Hindu kings, Pratap Bhanu Mehta is quoted in the ‘Financial Times’ as saying: “He is not just doing the consecration of a temple. [He is saying], ‘I’m the great monarch who delivered the temple to you.” @FT @pbmehta
“The foundation stone for a Ram Temple in Ayodhya in many ways signalled the end of India as a secular, multi-faith republic where the interests and beliefs of the Hindu majority will take precedence over the rights of minorities, especially Muslims.” @ftweekend editorial.
