BLOOMINGTON, Indiana — A new wave of intolerance seems to be sweeping across India. Hapless migrant workers from India's poorest states, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have been attacked in Bombay, Christians have faced the wrath of Hindus in Orissa and Karnataka and Bodo tribals have attacked Bengalis in West Bengal.
Amid all these developments, the country has also witnessed a new spate of Islamic zealotry with a little-known, shadowy group, the self-styled Indian mujahedin setting off bombs in various metropolitan areas including the national capital, New Delhi.
Earlier in the year, the long-troubled and insurgency-ridden state of Jammu and Kashmir had witnessed a new round of violence in the aftermath of a maladroit attempt on the part of the state government to transfer some land Hindu pilgrims.