Shri Ram janmabhoomi: Reconciling truth & secularism

When the ASI’s report revealed that the demolished temple’s pillars were used for the construction of the disputed structure in the 1500s, the new argument that was set up was that of ‘architectural reuse’, i.e. it was contended that the temple was not demolished to build the disputed structure in its place, instead it was merely an established practice to use the debris of pre-existing religious structures to construct new places of worship.