NEW DELHI: Days and nights of unrelenting rioting in the Indian capital have damaged not only homes and business, but also a tenuously maintained communal harmony. The violence reveal the marked polarisation of Indian society and make some wonder if tolerance is truly possible.
In the wake of the worst episode of sectarian violence in the Indian capital in decades, fear and suspicion have gripped Delhi's residents, many of whom are too afraid to return to their homes they fled even as they stare at an uncertain future.
The deadly violence swept through the Chand Bagh, Khajuri Khas, Maujpur, Shiv Vihar, Mustafabad, Jaffrabad and Bhajanpura localities. As the bloodthirsty mobs reached their neighbourhood after midnight, 70-year-old Noor Mohammad and his wife Ramzano Begum hid with their family in a toilet of a vacant home nearby until they were taken to safety by paramilitary troopers in the wee hours of Tuesday.
Both Muslim and Hindu residents of the area blame local politicians for instigating and having links with the bloodshed. They claim"outsiders" and criminals were used to perpetrate the violence. In the mixed neighbourhoods, wooden carts and wheelbarrows are piled up between streets at nights to prevent any intrusions or attacks.
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