In his famous speech on August 14,1947, Nehru said, "We have often been unworthy followers of his [Gandhiji] and havestrayed from his message ..." and expressed hopes for a better future. However, his optimism proved to beunfounded for we first killed Gandhiji and then set about killing whatever he stood for. Hardly had we recovered from the trauma of partitionwhen trouble started brewing again. In December 1949, a crowd illegally broke open the Babri Masjid locks and installed anidol of Ram claiming that the mosque had been built on the debris of a Ram temple.