The author conveniently forgets that the perpetrator in this case was a Dalit. And while the author lambasts unequivocally anybody who is not a Dalit, his rhetoric sounds very similar to VHP (listen to us or we will resort to violence, riots, all in the name of "people's sentiments"). I fully sympathize with the Dalit's issues. Caste system and psuedo-Hindus have oppressed them over the years. But just as calling anybody who is a Dalit a "poor" person or a person unduly taking advantage of reservation, I am offended by the author's generalization of everybody who doesn't agree with him as "middle-class" and "urban". Dalits aren't the only ones whom the govt. has disappointed. Please don't justify the riots and the collateral damage on sentiments. That makes you no better than Shiv Sena or VHP.
