I was not here in India when it happened, but I watched it on television. I saw the Babri Mosque being razed to the ground by the primates of the Sangh Parivar. All around me was complete silence, the room had at least fifteen to twenty people all huddled around the tube watching BBC. Every one in the room that day had one thing to say when they recovered from the momentary shock, we all agreed that 'that' should not have happened. That things will not be the same again, and we will have no peace now that these marauding idiots have blackened our name. Well truly enough, we have had to pay, and dearly for our own mistakes, mistakes of varying degrees of seriousness, but mistakes nonetheless. Right from supporting those neanderthals outright, to being silent watchers, to the other extreme of accusing the other side of provoking these barbaric acts just because we didn't have the courage to face the truth and speak up. Then the rest is history, people rewarded with t...