.BY ONE COUNT there are actually just about 700,000 Hindu holy places in India. However for numerous devotees it was the one that carried out certainly not exist-- a monolith to mark the apparent place of origin of Ram, a Hindu the lord-- that mattered one of the most. On January 22nd their yearning will come to a side when Narendra Modi, the prime minister, anoints the Ram mandir, a grand temple in the northern metropolitan area of Ayodhya. Some 8,000 people are going to go to the ceremony, featuring credit ratings of representatives coming from Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and also person of influences coming from 55 countries. Why is the holy place thus significant?