 This, he posits, is clear not only in the choice of Ayodhya, the traditional birthplace of Rama, but also in the attempts by the BJP and VHP to portray Muslims as demonic.Pollock begins his 2001 paper "The Death of Sanskrit" by associating Sanskrit with "Hindutva propagandists", the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.Pollock notes that "most observers would agree that, in some crucial way, Sanskrit is dead".