An article like this is bound to invoke all sorts of reactions and it did in me too. I sympathize with your and your wife's expereinces in Mumbai 13 yrs ago. That was a time that we all wish never occured and hope will never occur in the future too. But sadly it did and it has left all us with fear. Muslims fear living close to Hindus and vice-versa (though I do know of a few muslim famlies that were given refuge by their hindu neighbours during that time). Thinking about it, I realise that when you live next doors to a person of different religion you are suddenly awakened about your own. Most of the hindus I know are not religious (I cannot say the same of muslims, as I have known very few), but when they share a wall with a muslim or chrisitan suddenly a new sense of religious awakening occurs and they try to assert their beleif. I am sure a similar reaction must be happening with the other side aswell. This is just insecurity, and this insecurity among us which has been exploited by politicians which has now taken the ugly form of religious discrimination in India. And sadly it continues today as well. I feel sorry for ppl who have been victims of this insecurity like yourself
