.BY ONE matter there are nearly 700,000 Hindu holy places in India. However for a lot of followers it was actually the one that did certainly not exist-- a building to mark the apparent native home of Ram, a Hindu the lord-- that mattered the best. On January 22nd their yearning will certainly relate to a side when Narendra Modi, the prime minister, consecrates the Ram mandir, a splendid temple in the northern metropolitan area of Ayodhya. Some 8,000 individuals will certainly go to the event, featuring scores of authorities coming from Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Event (BJP) and also very important people coming from 55 countries. Why is actually the temple so important?