Like Gandhi, Nelson Mandela deserves a nuanced assessment. There is more to both than merely being associated in our memory with a non-violent transfer of power...
A group of them raised the stakes and turned a local communal deal into a clash of civilizations, a life-and-death matter on which the survival of the greatest treasure in the universe depended, viz. secularism.
The Liberhan findings are shoddy and biased, but the report's malicious conclusion that the BJP leadership engineered the demolition, though false, is paradoxically quite fair and fitting.
A response to Sanctified Vandalism As A Political
Tool which had argued that propaganda to the contrary notwithstanding,
Hindus and Muslims alike have been equally guilty of destroying pl
