Communal organisations have perfected the art of manufacturing hatred
against the ‘other’ community by cynically deploying rumour, innuendo
and falsehood. The issue chosen to demonise the ‘other’ varies based on
what would resonate and enrage most. In Partition, pork was thrown into
mosques and beef into temples; later riots are spurred by rumours of cow
slaughter, support to terror, and violence perpetrated by the ‘other’
community (the falsehood of the slaughter of Hindu students in hostels
by Muslims led to the massacre of more than a thousand people in
Bhagalpur).
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