Homer Simpson comes home one day with a mammoth chocolate donut of diameter, let’s say 2.7 meters. His three brats, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, watching “The Itchy & Scratchy Show” get corybantic at the site of this chocolate donut and look at Homer with pleading eyes and watering mouths. Looking at this innocent appeal, even from Bart, what do you think Homer would do?
Homer an imbecile of a father after much deliberation would have just one option. He will divide the 2.7 acre; I am sorry I mean, 2.7 diameter donut of the chocolate into three halves and will give one piece each.
This does sound familiar. Ahh! Yes, “The Ayodhya Verdict”.
Homer Simpson the epitome of imbecile will take at most 2 minutes to make this decision. The same decision for Ayodhya took:
- 60 years of legal battle
- 18 years since the violent riots as written in history
- 3 High Court judges of the Lucknow bench – Justice S U Khan, Justice Sudhir Agarwal and Justice D V Sharma
- 3 plaintiffs – Nirmohi Akhara, Sunni Waqf Board and the Hindus representing Lord Ram
- 90 trenches of excavation
- 15,000 (give or take) pages of evidence of having no evidence
- 24 page summary of the verdict
What a farce!
One thing I fail to comprehend is, why did were there three judges – one a believer of Islam and the other two believers of Hinduism, presumably. Isn’t this, 1:2 ration wrong? Why couldn’t they have a 1:1 or a 2:2? It’s good none of the factions have cried foul for this reason since the verdict looks to be in favor of the majority.
Now the plaintiffs plan to file an appeal in the Supreme Court. This is what I think will happen.
After another decade of circus, the Supreme Court will issue the following verdict summary:
Hindus and Muslims will have a joint custody of the complete disputed area. The court shall instruct the government to construct a single two-storied holiness using money from taxpayers. The Hindus shall have the first storey for dedicating a temple for Lord Ram while the Muslims shall have the second storey for resurrecting the Mosque. Since the Muslims bow their head in the East to Mecca, the Mosque will have its dome on the East and the Hindus will have their dome in the west. They will have their separate passages; Muslims will enter the Mosque from the North and the Hindus will enter the Temple from the South. As history will have it, this structure will be the quintessence of secularism in the world, a symbol of Hindu-Muslim unity, a one of its kind.
Now you ask where the Akhara goes? The today’s real estate gyms have made Akharas a dying art form and by the time the Supreme Court delivers this verdict, Akhara would be dead. So they won’t be needing any space.
