March , 2009
From Ram Mandir to concrete jungle
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After a gap of almost two years, I am back in Ayodhya. Once again it's on the eve of another election. Over the last ten years, I have been travelling to Ayodhya quite regularly. Everytime I have been there, I have been struck by the sheer sameness of the place. Almost as if time has frozen here. Hindu scriptures show Ayodhya to be an "abhishapt", a "cursed" town. An eerie silence always engulfing the town. This time though there was a difference. Suddenly, as you enter Ayodhya, you don't get struck by the sheer number of security personnel hanging around the town, but students of Saket Mahavidyala chatting about their academics. Go a little further towards Hanuman Gadhi, and we meet a group of youngsters just milling around and having tea. The conversation inevitably veers around elections. Who is up, who is down? What about Ayodhya I ask, is....
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Bhupendra Chaubey has been a TV journalist for the past 12 years starting his career with NDTV. As a political journalist travelling across the length and breadth of the country, he has that unique ability to grasp things at a micro level and then present it on a macro level. A graduate in Mathematics and post graduate in films, Bhupendra has been among the finest political journalists of his generation having covered two general elections and assembly elections of all states. He is amongst those journalists who depend more on their ground political awareness supplementing it with academic awareness of issues that confront the nation. Bhupendra often hosts the very popular and award winning news show face the nation on CNN-IBN. He wants to be associated with the process of understanding the ever changing face of India. He lives in the national capital with his family.
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