Twenty-five years of the Babri Masjid demolition; alarming RTI response on EVM security; Nepal elections; and more

[View this email in your browser]( Top Story [‘Advani Told Us I Don’t Want This Babri Structure to Remain After December 6’]( Arshad Afzaal Khan [“I reached there along with karsevaks Pravin Sharma and Vijay Tiwari. We were introduced to Advani who addressed us in a challenging tone: ‘The Babri mosque is the greatest hurdle in the way of the construction of Ram temple. I need about 300 youths who are ready to sacrifice their lives for Ram and I don’t want this Babri structure to remain after December 6. You will get whatever you want to raze the mosque; we have our government in the state’,” the youngest karsevak named in the CBI chargesheet, Santosh Dubey, told The Wire.]( [Blue Pencil – A Short Story]( N.S. Madhavan [As the news from Ayodhya throws a newsroom into turmoil, an editor uses his pen like a chisel. We reproduce here the much-acclaimed story Blue Pencil by N.S Madhavan, translated from Malayalam by the author himself.]( [Why the Current Rate of Economic Growth Is a Flawed Indicator of Ground Realities]( Arun Kumar [Not only is the real rate of GDP growth less than what the data suggest, it is also likely to fall in the coming quarters.]( [Scars of the Bombay Riots Remain, but for Many Victims It’s a Closed Chapter Now]( Meena Menon [“Though the riots are in the past, they have left a mark. People have moved on but after the series of mob lynchings, there is fear once again.”]( [Nepal Hopes for Stability Ahead of Parliamentary and Provincial Assembly Elections]( Praveen Kumar Yadav [Both India and China are likely to be watching the results of Thursday’s election closely.]( [Twenty-Five Years On, India Has Still to Live Down the Shame of the Babri Masjid’s Demolition]( Siddharth Varadarajan [The Central Bureau of Investigation is deliberately prolonging the trial while the BJP does its best to use the Ayodhya dispute to once again stoke the flames of hatred.]( [RTI Response Raises Serious Questions About Security, Handling of EVMs]( Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar [Discrepancies between Election Commission and Electronics Corporation of India Limited data on number of ballot units and control units manufactured have also been revealed.]( [Clipping the Censor’s Wings]( Pankaj Butalia [For years, the CBFC has been going far beyond its jurisdiction, acting as a so-called guardian of our morality and worldview.]( [When Even the Supreme Court Let Down the Nation]( Manoj Mitta [It did nothing to hold to account the BJP leaders who gave false assurances to the court before the Ayodhya demolition.]( [Jyotiraditya Scindia on Rahul Gandhi as Congress President and Gujarat Elections]( Karan Thapar [Congress MP Jyotiraditya Scindia talks to Karan Thapar about the Congress party, Rahul Gandhi’s nomination for the party’s president and the Gujarat elections.]( Copyright © 2017 The Wire, All rights reserved. You're getting this email because you recently subscribed to receive email digests from The Wire via our website. Our mailing address is: The Wire 13, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg Gole MarketNew Delhi 110001 India [Add us to your address book](//thewire.us11.list-manage.com/vcard?u=6b988b13445248b1268a308f2&id=4808224841) Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](