CHAPTER VI
WAS IT A COMMUNAL RIOT?
Nearly two months and a half after the holocaust, one can assert with confidence that unlike the Calcutta killing of 1946 and the killing during the partition of the country, the recent killing in Delhi was not the outcome of communal hatred. It has, indeed, brought out the worst in certain human beings after they had been instigated; but it has clearly and spontaneously brought out the finest in others.