India's unofficial apartheid

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BEING THE OTHER The Muslim in India Saeed Naqvi Aleph 239 pages; Rs 599 At the height of the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi agitation, veteran journalist Saeed Naqvi asked an audience at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), equally divided between Hindus and Muslims, if any of the Hindus had visited a Muslim home and whether the Muslims had ever seen the insides of a Hindu abode. Not a single hand went up. Hindus and Muslims have "lived in a state of uninstitutionalized apartheid for decades, even centuries," he writes in Being the Other: The Muslim in India, an engaging ...

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India's unofficial apartheid