Some pictures that defined major events in India

Babur a Mughal emperor in India constructed the Babri mosque or the mosque of Babur in Ayodhya in the 16th century. It was believed that the mosque was constructed on land where initially a temple to commemorate the birth place of Lord Ram had been built. Mir Baki, Babur’s general was said to have torn down this temple in order to build the mosque. This mosque was destroyed by 150,000 strong Hindu nationalists in a planned ceremony on December 6th, 1992. The picture below had starkly portrayed the demolition to the country.


On December 3, 1984 a Union Carbide subsidiary, released nearly 42 tones of methyl isocyanine and phosgene gas in Bhopal, the capital of the state Madhya Pradesh in India. Nearly 520,000 people were exposed to these toxic gases with 3000 people dying immediately. This tragedy is sited to be the worst industrial disaster in the world. When I googled for pictures of the tragedy this one happened to catch my attention more than others and also appeared the maximum number of times.

The Godhra riots took place in 2002 in Gujarat, a state on the western border of India. A group of Muslims burnt a train carrying Hindu pilgrims. This resulted in riots between Hindus and Muslims all over the state. Nearly four thousand people died or went missing during these riots.
This Muslim man in the picture below became the face of the riots in the country. I am not sure of his name but still he became the face of the riots in India. The picture appeared in almost all newspaper dailies and also made it to the cover of India Today magazine, the Indian equivalent of Time magazine.