The communal riots in Malegaon were the most serious in Maharashtra after the post-Babri masjid killings in the state in 1992-93. The riots have underscored once again the role of politicians in fanning communal tensions and the failure of the police and the administration to contain the violence in time and prevent it from spreading.
Beading Sumanta Banerjee’s evaluation of Vajpayee’s rule (‘The Mask Slips Again’, December 16-22), I was reminded of famous Danish scientist Neils Bohr’s saying, “we are all actors and spectators of this great drama of existence: Man is his own mystery”. Neils Bohr was rewriting Shakespeare.
