So the gloves are off, though it wasn't expected to be so quick. The players aren't exactly those who had taken part in the preliminary rounds of the game quarter of a century ago. But the leader then and few current players are the same. The game is Ram Temple Run. The skipper, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), feels that the spirit with which the movement needed to be rebuilt across the country should be raised in an unprecedented manner.

Keeping a promise it had made just a couple of weeks ago, the Sangh Parivar has taken a big leap towards regenerating a 1992-like agitation for the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. Beginning November 25, expect the RSS, its political offshoot BJP, and frontal associates such as Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal and many others to paint the towns and villages saffron. On the day, RSS' ideological capital Nagpur, a southern metro, Bengaluru, and a hotbed, Ayodhya, where the temple is demanded on the disputed site, will host 'hunkar (loosely translated as challenge) rallies'.