by MUKUL DUBE
Easily the most striking thing about yesterday’s judgment on the Ayodhya matter is other Original Suit No.5 of 1989. In this suit the plaintiffs are not humans but “… deities of Bhagwan Sri Ram Virajman and the Asthan Sri Ram Janam Bhumi …”. The first is an anthropoid meta-divinity and the second is another divinity in the form of a physical space.
We can now look forward to more of the pantheon entering the courts to fight legal battles amongst themselves. I propose to represent (as “next friend”) my neighbour (and yours too, because he is everywhere, right?) Bhakta Hanuman, engineer and contractor, in his action against Shri R. Virajman, military tourist, seeking overtime for the duration of the alleged bridge building.