Kashi Vishwanath: When Aurangzeb demolished Shiva’s house and built a “place of prayer” on the very same spot
Kashi. The very name brings to mind the ghats, the Ganga, the aarti, and the parikrama of Baba Vishwanath. But in this same Kashi there is also a chapter that our “secular” textbooks have practically pushed out of the syllabus — the chapter in which, in 1669, Aurangzeb demolished the Kashi Vishwanath temple and raised […]