Under the Garb of Communalism By Deepak Parvatiyar (This article was published in Sunday Free Press Journal, Bombay on 13 December 1992) Through four days of carnage, Bombay shed its pretentious veil of cosmopolitanism to expose its true, blotched face to a world bewitched by its glamour. And the citizens, left in a disarray, refused to believe that the demon of mayhem and madness had possessed the city, till some stray bullet or a stone made their dear ones its target. Helpless as they felt, they asked why their city, which boasted of the most advanced minds in the country, reacted so disgracefully and violently to an event which in itself was a chapter that posterity would hate to read. Chroniclers will write volumes on the event and analysts will expound theories on it, yet the happenings will continue to confound thousands of sufferers who can only blame the intricacies of the system for their misfortune. It is always easy to blame the authorities, and none sho
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