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...John and Alan, former colleagues at a London airport, also report a certain numbness on their eighth annual visit to the show. "The first time is an eye opener. After that, there are no surprises," says John. "But we'll be here next year," says Alan. "Oh my word," says John, suddenly distracted as an elderly man clad only in shoes and socks and a posing pouch ambles past. (See eco-friendly sex aids...
...mosque was destroyed by Hindu extremists in order to rebuild a Hindu temple that had stood on the same site hundreds of years earlier, and it triggered a wave of Hindu-Muslim violence that left more than 2,000 people dead. Seventeen years later, leaks from the report of the Liberhan Commission (named for the presiding judge), which allegedly held some current leaders of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) culpable for the destruction of the mosque, provoked scuffles in Parliament, offering a reminder that beneath the "Shining India" image of modernity the BJP had once proclaimed lie some ugly...
...Liberhan report had been submitted to Prime Minister Singh on June 30, after which the government was required to produce an action-taken report (ATR) within six months before introducing the findings for discussion in Parliament. It had planned to raise the topic before Parliament adjourns in December, but earlier this week, the report was leaked to the media. Furious members of the BJP demanded that the government immediately release the report in Parliament, which Singh authorized Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to do on Tuesday. (See TIME's pictures "The Tempestuous Nehru Dynasty of India...
...leaders have long maintained that the destruction of the mosque had been a spontaneous act, but the new report calls the attack "meticulously planned" and carried out with the approval of senior members of the BJP, implicating L.K. Advani, who had been present at the site, and other top party leaders such Murli Manohar Joshi, and Kalyan Singh, then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. (See who's who among India's most influential people...
...completely untrue that it was a meticulously planned conspiracy," Advani told reporters after the contents of the report became public. "There was no plan, no conspiracy...