The final face-off in the Ramayana begins with the building of the bridge. Ram has chased ravana all the way to the shores of Hindustan and the great ocean must be passed to enter lanka. That's when the vanara army comes into it's own. Two monkey engineers Nal and Nilas volunteer to undertake the task. Huge trees are cut down and boulders rolled in and hewn. If you believe valmiki's version, the vanar army lead by hanuman and Nal and Nilas engineering skill complete the bridge of a 130 kilometers in just 5 days. They might have been at war with ravana, but they were not dealing with a land title dispute at least. It won't take modicum of that kind of engineering to construct the ram temple, what's stop us is still the war between good and evil. The evil of those who destroyed temples in the name of religion, the evil of those who then destroyed a mosque in the name of religion. The good in our modern day ramayana is of the country. A hoard of ram bhakts under the sena, vhp and rss have now converged on ayodhya. All the hotels are booked out, mini-camps are being organised. The locals are stocking up food fearing market shortages. Over the next 48 hours a movement is going to begin in this country that promises to range from ayodhya to bengaluru. Hundreds of rallies and meetings across the country are being planned for the next few weeks, well into the end of the year. It would be good for this country, the best statement we can make to our children, our forefathers, history, the future and the present globe of the power of india's secular republic. Imagine if the mandir could be built by gesture and concord rather than bitterness and headshakes amongst a few. A good deed could beget another. If a gesture is being sought, then perhaps those collecting bricks and soil and marbles for the mandir and donating money in the crores should also collect brick for brick the same to rebuild the masjid at an adjacent sight. That would be a great signal of intent. Barring that we either wait for the courts to rule, or presume that our legislators actually wade into difficult issues and legislate a temple in public interest. So far, little movement on either of those fronts. So will this grand show, this movement build us both the temple and solidarity through just means, or will we just fade away to debate again another day? Ravana, the idol of shiv who went rogue, had 10 lives, could not be killed at day or night. He was meant to be unkillable. But yet valmiki teaches us it could be done. Perhaps things that have been beyond us for generations, some would think undoable, it's for us to realise that we as the present generation of people have that choice, it is doable. No force in the world can stop an idea who's time has come goes the aphorism. Are we up for it?