That night the tide turned, perhaps irrevocably, as friends turned foes and silence turned into determination; a masjid had to be conquered and a temple had to be rebuilt. Did history take a decisive turn then? Or did it fail to turn at all? It is too early to tell, but what remains undisputable is that precise moment has remained unadulterated without hundreds of TV news channels presenting their own versions of truth and social media trending their own hashtags and counter-hashtags. The reality was there in front of our eyes and we did pause to consider it in its bare essentials. That reality was not drowned in the cacophony (not even of the editorial kind), that reality simply forced us to rethink.