... immolation, rape and torture, went on for days under the nose of the state administration with no effort to check the slaughter. Over a year later, the courts have found nobody responsible for these acts that shamed India before the world, and severely compromised its secular standing. Reading the chapter dealing with these atrocities in Zakaria's book is chilling work. But what led up to this anti ... to play second fiddle after the British left, and this led to the politics of separation in the last century. In a moving foreword, the Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, adds his voice to Za...

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