The Truth of Babri Mosque

The word Babri was literally used to define something abnormal, out of sense or mad. Three instances mentioned in Babar-Nama support this. Babar’s journal is replete with precise detail with a telling image or idiom as “a bud resembling a sheep’s heart”, “fell like water on fire” which lingers in the reader’s mind long after the event or anecdote has receded. Few of the phrases and words in the Babar Nama are now part of everyday language in India and Pakistan as “Namak Haram” means lack of...