Is there indeed room for everything and everybody? And is that what makes India a vibrant democracy and multi-culture? ‘Kaun Mara?’ (‘Who Died?’), Manjit Bawa’s painting (left), was a direct comment on the death of both people and constitutional principles when a militant social fringe broke the Babri Masjid. (Didn’t you hate the way some Indian and international commentators called that mob “the Hindus” in one sweep, without any qualifiers, as if all 82 per cent of India’s resident population was attacking those domes that day? It was as emotionally irresponsible and unfair then as it is today to say “Muslim terrorist” in one blanket assumption — and it fetched India so many enemies needlessly.) But a multi-culture works in strange ways. The childhood of Farhan Mujib, professor of physics at Aligarh Muslim University and an...
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