When you want the Marxist viewpoint on a social conflict, you interview a party leader or quote from a study by some Marxist academic, rather than the trade-union militant on strike using foul language against the big fat capitalists. When you want the Muslim viewpoint on the Hindu-Muslim conflict, you get interviews with or invited contributions by articulate Muslim intellectuals like Rafiq Zakaria or Asghar Ali Engineer. By contrast, in writings about Hindu revivalism, the spotlights are as much as possible on the rumour mills (and of course, false rumours about girls being raped by members
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