A Fearfulness In The Air
MACKINNON: How did you feel when you saw Gujarat burning? ROY: The worst thing was that BJP governments in New Delhi and Gujarat tried to say it was an administration problem: how to get the police and Army in. But they’ve been assiduously working up this feeling for years, stoking these ugly passions. If it was an uncontrolled communal frenzy, why wasn’t it repeated in other states? It’s because Gujarat’s the only state where the BJP’s in power....