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Gyanvapi Mosque

Allahabad HC orders ‘scientific survey’ of ‘shivling’ in Gyanvapi mosque (Maktoob)

The Allahabad High Court Friday set aside a lower court order and ordered a “scientific survey”, including carbon dating of what Hindu religious groups...

Hilal Ahmed writes: At Gyanvapi, the law feeds into BJP’s political imagination (Indian Express)

The Varanasi District Court order has legally transformed the Gyanvapi mosque into a disputed site. The court has accepted the legal claim made by five...

Gyanvapi Mosque: Varanasi Court Says Hindu Women’s Plea for Worship Maintainable (The Wire)

New Delhi: A Varanasi district court on Monday, September 12, dismissed the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee’s plea citing the Places of Worship Act and held...

Supreme Court To Hear Plea Seeking Right To Worship Shivling Stated To Be Found In Gyanvapi Mosque On July 21

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to list on July 21 a plea to allow the worship of Shivling stated to be found in the premises...

Why many Varanasi residents are unimpressed by the furore around the Gyanvapi mosque

By Aishwarya Iyer / Scroll Vijay Tiwari is still distressed about it. In March 2020, the Varanasi administration demolished the small shop where he sold...

Emotions Ignited: The Supreme Court is Battling Monsters of Its Own Making

By Apoorvanand / The Wire The Supreme Court of India is being called a Sharia Court by Hindutva trolls online after one its benches held Nupur...

Decoding Places of Worship Act; Why is SC hesitant to uphold it?

By NAYAB GAUHAR / Maktoob Media In his autobiography ‘My Country, My Life’, L.K Advani wrote “an exhilarating period of my life” while describing the...

Now they are coming for the Taj Mahal and the Qutb Minar

Will the Qutub Minar and the Taj Mahal too be destroyed by Hindutva vandals like the five-hundred-year-old Babri Masjid and replaced with temples? By Muqtedar...

Structure found in Gyanvapi mosque is fountain, not Shivling, says Hindu priest

The head priest of Kashi Karvat temple, which is located behind the Gyanvapi mosque, has said that the structure found at the mosque is...