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Ayodhya and Babri Masjid S UNDAY N EWSLETTER Sunday, July 21, 2019 Website:- www.theliberacy.com Mail:- [email protected] THE LIBERACY Facebook.com: fb/theliberacy Instagram:- @theliberacy The Liberal Democracy Twitter:- @theliberacy Ayodhya and Babri Masjid- Timeline:-In the Google Listening to Your Bedroom Talk? last decade of the 20th century, India faced many July 17, 2019:- Google has argument or some sensitive allegations and got inked developed itself as a tech topics that no one wants in black for its justice to giant since its establishment others to listen. In one au- minorities and caste sys- and has developed several dio file, we even got to lis- tem, and one of such cas- products including ten to a woman in some es includes the incident of Smartphones and its very emergency situation.” 6th December 1992, the own search engine. But can Google has said before in Ayodhya and Babri Mas- Google listen to your private its statement that it records jid incident. On the 6th of bedroom talks with its Hi- only 0.2% of the audio files December 1992, under the tech technologies? The an- coming to its database and political shadow of ma- swer is, Yes. Google. that too for the improve- jor… ment of voice recognition Continued on page 2 VRT News, a Belgian voice recognition feature. feature across all its devices broadcaster has claimed that Reportedly, VRT News was able and products. the conversation of the end- to listen to such 1000 recording After the leak in the infor- Classic Dreams of The users with Google speakers with the help of a whistleblower, mation of the company, Steerers. are being recorded and sent that was recorded by the compa- Google has launched an Indore:- On an invitation from the socie- to third party sub- ny via Speakers, Smartphone and investigation against the ty, Steerers group ar- contractors. These third- Assistant. contractor for violating its ranged an event at the party sub-contractors are They said, “We could listen to data policy and improving Classic Dreams on Sun- said to be transcribing the the recordings were people are its services. day 14th of July 2019. audio files for improving talking about porn or having an The event included vari- ous performances from different artists on Sing- ing, Poetry, Gazal, Story- Indian population to overtake China in 8 years. telling, Jokes, Dance and Painting. th The event started with the stan on 5 with a total popu- melodious voice of Gopi- June 19, 2019:- The World lation of 410 million and the ka Thakur… Population Prospectus 2019 total population of the world Continued on page 4 report of the United Nations will reach 11 billion by the presented a document that end of this century. says, India will be the most According to the report, Google Listening to populous country by 2027, India and Nigeria will to- Your Bedroom Talk? overtaking China. Agreeing to gether account 23% of the Population Boost July 17, 2019:- Google the report presented, the popu- total population and the re- has developed itself as lation on India will be 1.5 According to the report, the port points out that there will a tech giant since its billion by the end of this cen- world headcount will be major- be 41% of the world‟s total establishment and has tury and whereas, because of ly increased because of these 9 people accumulated, where developed several the birth control preventive Countries:- India, Nigeria, Pa- women give birth to 4 chil- products including measures by China, its total kistan, Congo, Ethiopia, Tan- dren in their lifetime and Smartphones and its count will decrease and re- zania, Indonesia, Egypt, and these countries are, India, very own search en- main at 1.1 billion. America. Indonesia, Pakistan, Mexico, gine. But can Google The UN report also points out By the end of this century, Philippines, and Egypt. listen to your private the increase in the age average India will rank 1, with a popu- The world fertility rate in lation of 1.5 billion, China on bedro…. of the world by 2050. By nd 1990 was 3.5%, which de- 2050 1/6th of the world will be 2 with a population of 1.1 creased to 2.5% in 2019 and billion, Nigeria on 3rd with 733 Continued on page 3 over the age of 65, whereas, in th is predicted to be 2.2% by 2019, it was 1/9th of the world. million people, US on 4 with 2050. 434 million people and Paki- P a g e 2 www.theliberacy.com THE LIBERACY Ayodhya and Babri Masjid- Timeline The Liberacy:- In the last decade of outside the Babri Masjid (Mosque), the 20th century, India faced many and at the end of the 9th day, on the allegations and got inked in black for its night of 22-23 December, some 60-70 justice to minorities and caste system, men thrashed inside the mosque and and one of such cases includes the placed the idols of Ram and Sita in- incident of 6th December 1992, the side the Mosque (as claimed by the Ayodhya and Babri Masjid incident. Muslim side). On the morning of 23 On the 6th of December 1992, under the December, 1949, they started an- political shadow of major Hindu in- nouncing on loudspeakers that the idols were miraculously produced clined political parties, around 150,000 Kar Sevaks (volunteers) gathered in inside the mosque and urged everyone Ayodhya (the birth place of Lord Rama) to come for Darshan (take blessing). and demolished the Babri Masjid (Babri On the verge of the producing tension, Mosque), which was supposedly built the government declared the land as Disputed. Then, Union Home Minis- by demolishing the temple of Lord Ram Hindu temple structure, brought by at his birth place (Ramkot) by Mughal Hanuman (god of monkey and a ter, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and emperors in 1528. devotee to Lord Rama) from Lanka. Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru ordered then Chief Minister of Lord Rama is considered as the 7th In 1810, a Scottish physician, Fran- the state, Govind Ballabh Pant and avatar (incarnation) of Lord Vishnu and cis Buchanan recorded about the state Home Minister Lal Bahadur according to Ramayana (the holy book destruction of Ram temple and con- Shastri to get the idols removed from of Hindu religion), Ram was born to struction of a mosque on top of it in the inner courtyard after 26th January Queen Kaushalya and the King of Awadh (Ayodhya). 1950. CM ordered the Faizabad depu- Avadh (Ayodhya) Dasharatha, at the Jai Singh II (Sawai Jai Singh) started ty commissioner K K Nayar to get the same city of Ayodhya, about 9000 years purchasing the lands of Hindu reli- idols removed to which he declined, ago and now, the exact place of Lord gious places in North India in a way stating his inability to do so. Ram‟s birth is known as Ramcot. It is of protecting the temples from the 1950, 16th January:- Gopal Singh the exact place where Babri Masjid was foreign rulers. He purchased lands in supposedly built in 1528, under the Visharad filed a civil lawsuit in the Mathura, Varanasi and Ayodhya. Fizabad court, asking for the permis- wake of Mughal empire expansion in Combining there purchased Hindu India and was demolished on the 6th of sion to allow Hindus to worship Ram religious places he established and Sita at the disputed place. December 1992. „Jaisinghpuras‟. The documents of Documents available bearing nothing all the purchased lands are well 1950:- Nirmohi Akhara filed a law about the mosque or temple: Babar- preserved in Kapad-Dwar collection suit demanding the possession of the nama (Babur‟s diary) which runs in the city palace museum in Jaipur. Babri Mosque. through the life of Babur has no men- Professor R Nath, who examined the 1961, 18th December:- Sunni Central tion of either Ayodhya or a Mosque documents, has stated that the Ram Waqf Board, filed a lawsuit demand- build after demolishing any temple. Janmasthan in Ayodhya was ac- ing the possession of the land and the “Work until your Babur‟s grandson, Akbar in his court quired by Jai Singh II in 1717. The removal of the idols from the mosque documents, Ain-i-Akbari, also never documents also state that, during the premises. sweat is wet mentioned about a Mosque or a temple Muslim reign the people were re- 1964:- Establishment of Vishva Hindu in Ayodhya. stricted for religious practice like enough” Parishad (VHP) by M S Golwalkar The great Hindu poet, Tulsidas went to taking bath in the Saryu River, but and S S Apte in collaboration with Ayodhya in 1574 and began writing the establishment of Jaisinghpuras Swami Chinmayananda with an objec- Ramcharitmanas, has never mentioned removed those restrictions from the tive to protect Hindu religion. Hindus. anything about a mosque being built at 1980:- Establishment of Bharatiya the birth place of Ram (Ramcot) in Archaeological evidence shows Janta Party (BJP) on 6th April 1980 Ayodhya. different structures of Hindu and led the formation of a political face Documents claiming the demolished Buddhist construction after pre- for protecting the objective of VHP temples: The very first report of the dating the remains of mosque post and began the campaign for the con- Babri mosque appears in the book Sa- demolition. struction of Ram temple at the Ram hifa-I-Chihil Nasaih Bahadur Shahi Timeline: 1528:- The Babri Masjid Janmabhoomi (birth place of Lord which was written by the daughter of (Mosque) was built by Mir Baqi, Ram).
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