.THROUGH ONE COUNT there are actually just about 700,000 Hindu temples in India. However for lots of devotees it was the one that did certainly not exist-- a monolith to mark the apparent native home of Ram, a Hindu the lord-- that mattered the most. On January 22nd their yearning will certainly come to a side when Narendra Modi, the prime minister, venerates the Ram mandir, a grand holy place in the northern metropolitan area of Ayodhya. Some 8,000 individuals are going to join the event, consisting of scores of authorities coming from Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Event (BJP) as well as very important people from 55 nations. Why is actually the temple thus crucial?