In the months following the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992, as now, the adoring fans of a cricket superstar - Azharuddin then and Irfan Pathan now - were breaking communal barriers haunting our society...
No society can progress, if it is steeped too deeply in the past -- and India, where the past is more divisive in nature, tending to generate hatred and bigotry against one's own fellow citizens, the need to move on is even stronger.