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...English. The expanded version of a novella-length work first issued in early 1993, Shame tells the story of the Dutta family -- father Sudhamoy, mother Kironmoyee, son Suranjan and daughter Nilanjana -- Bangladeshi Hindus caught up in a wave of Muslim reprisals shortly after the December 1992 destruction of the Babri mosque by Hindu zealots in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya...
Heptulla said BJP leaders last December incited a crowd of Hindus to demolish the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India, for the party's political advancement. Many Hindus believe the Babri Mosque's location is the birthplace...
Hindus have repeatedly demanded that the Indian government build a Hindu temple on the site. Hundreds of Muslims, protesting the Babri destruction, have been killed in riots in the last month...
...state government is still deciding what action to take to prevent future religiously motivated violence, Heptulla said. But she said the Babri destruction will not set a precedent for attacks on other mosques or temples, since it was the result of a onetime "fundamentalist conflict...
...multicultural state. Indian democracy has survived by balancing the interests of many groups, particularly those of the Hindus and the Muslims, now 110 million strong, who stayed behind when India was partitioned in 1947. But militancy on one side breeds it on the other. In the wake of the Babri mosque's destruction, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, a Muslim religious leader, vowed to lead a mass march of his own to the site to rebuild the shrine. Said he: "The country is heading toward civil...