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Where does India go from here? What lies ahead? It's a question Modi asked today, and that Indians of different shades of religious belief will be wondering for some time to come.

For many Indians, the temple marks the righting of a historic wrong. For others, it's an epitaph to India's era of being a secular republic

The god was a legal party to the case, thanks to a legacy of British colonial law, and in 2019 India's top court ruled in favor of a Hindu temple.

The 16th century mosque, the Babri Masjid, was demolished by a Hindu mob in 1992, by which time the site, which Hindus hold to be Ram's birthplace, had become central to a revived Hindu nationalists movement.

The battle for Ayodhya has played out in the courts, at the ballot boxes, and spilled onto the streets--often with deadly violence. A 2012 series for the India blog delved into the history

The moment capped one of India's longest-running religious sagas. The modern legal dispute goes back to 1950 but Hindus and Muslims worshipped and clashed over the sites for far longer than that.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi marked a milestone in his reshaping of India into a Hindu nation--the inauguration of a temple to Ram where a 16th-century mosque stood before it was destroyed

India’s prime minister recently talked up the pristine beaches of India’s Lakshadweep islands, tweeting pictures of himself relaxing by the ocean and snorkeling. Some in tourist-dependent Maldives took it personally

Economists and sociologists say similar social reservations in other nations receded when booming economies produced enormous numbers of jobs and good wages. India's economy has overtaken the UK's in size, but young people say they aren't able to find good jobs.

Many women they interviewed reported their families were unhappy they work -- even when it greatly improved family circumstances -- or they too viewed it as a choice made due to unfortunate circumstances. It's a feeling that weighs on women at all different levels of income.

The lead photo - of a train at rush hour - is a pretty good proxy for the ratio of women to men in the workforce and therefore in public spaces.

It's an anomaly particularly because India's girls/women are more likely to be enrolled in school + more educated than previously. And fertility rates are down. In other countries, this has sent a larger share of working age women into formal paid employment.

A great read from @ByShanLi and Vibhuti Agarwal looking at how India is departing from the trajectory of so many countries that have drawn a larger share of women into the workforce as their economies grew

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