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.
These are dark days for the Muslims of India. Yet we must not lose faith and hope. After all Islam is reborn after every Karbala.
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