Editor’s Note: As part of Youth Ki Awaaz and Khabar Lahariya‘s collaboration, we bring to you this story from the hinterlands of the country’s largest state – Uttar Pradesh. Yugal Kishore Saran Shastri is a journalist who stays on the outskirts of the disputed Ramjanambhoomi site, Ayodhya. He is also the Mahant of the Saryu Kunj mandir but hasn’t performed a single pooja in 23 years. Watch him talk about the money behind religion, caste discrimination in the country, and Ayodhya as Ramjanambhoomi.
