Your Passport to Hindu Temples is Cancelled
Maggie with a friend in front of Bardrinath Temple Maggie and I visited many holy places and temples in Uttarakhand, known as the Abode of the Gods, a few years before Narendra Modi became India’s Prime Minister. We are grateful to Dr S C Biala, Principal of the school we taught at in those days in Delhi. He was and still is (now in his 70s) an enthusiastic mountaineer. He took senior students on trekking in the Himalayas instead of the conventional study tours to historical places. Now Dr Biala wouldn’t be able to take Maggie and me along on such treks. The Badri-Kedar Temple Committee [BKTC] has banned non-Hindus and non-Sanatanis from entering Kedarnath and Badrinath shrines and 45 other Hindu temples. Before I proceed, let me tell you I don’t know the difference between a Hindu and a Sanatani. There are many things I don’t understand in Modi’s India. So this post is being written by a confused Indian whose very citizenship may be terminated at any time by Sanatanis who have dec...
