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DELHI, INDIA, October 21, 2003: India Today published a book review of “Ayodhya, the Finale” by Koenraad Elst. It reads in part, “Although his academic credentials are quite impressive, Belgian historian Koenraad Elst is known to his Indian readers largely as a polemicist. In his 58-page booklet, Ayodhya, The Finale, he doesn’t disappoint those who have come to expect hearty, punch-packed secularist-bashing from his pugnacious pen. The volume has two essays that he wrote after the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) brought out the report on the excavation at the disputed site in Ayodhya. Some years ago, Elst caused quite a stir with his robust defence of the Ram mandir movement, bringing his scholarship to bear upon the perverted logic of India’s secular fundamentalists, mercilessly exposing their duplicity in the process. To him and countless others, the entire gamut of secularist positions on Ayodhya is truly baffling. Is there any doubt that there existed a temple dedicated to Ram at his birthplace? Can anybody seriously question that a mosque was built after demolishing such a structure after the Muslim conquest of north India to proclaim the military superiority of Islam over the kafirs of Hindustan?” The book is available from Voice of India at “source” above.

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