Almost two decades after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, Scharada Dubey, an Ayodhya resident, studies the barricaded Ram Janmabhoomi site, travels through temple alleyways, visits the residents, ordinary and prominent, of a town that has known no peace. What follows is Portraits of Ayodhya a startling compilation of oral history. In this book of narrative non-fiction, we meet Ayodhya denizens from all walks of life from the almost omnipotent Mahant ...
