Let the Heavens Fall, but Let Justice be Done

Let the Heavens Fall, but Let Justice be Done THE Indian Constitution defines our polity as a "secular socialist republic'. Yet a review of developments around the historical monument known as the Babri Masjid shows that both the judiciary and the administration had repeatedly adopted positions that had been heavily influenced by the obscurantist beliefs of a vociferous section of the majority community, as a result of which the secularist obligation of maintaining the state's independence in religious disputes had suffered serious erosion.