Log toot jate jain ek ghar banane mein, tum taras khate nahin bastiyan jalane mein. This couplet, written by the famous Urdu poet Bashir Badr after his house was burnt in a communal riot in Meerut

In his interaction with the media last week Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was right to list communal harmony as his government’s first priority, and express the hope that whatever the verdict of