I can give two vignettes of West Bengal from my personal experience in the last two years. The first dates back to April 2013, when lakhs of Muslims in Kolkata held a mammoth meeting in the Maidan, right next to Fort William, the Headquarters of the Army’s Eastern Command. The reason for this rally was to protest against the war crime trials in Bangladesh against the razakars and pro-Pakistani militia that had assisted and abetted the appalling genocide of Bengalis by the Pakistani army during the 1971 liberation war. Readers will rub their eyes in disbelief when they realise the ramifications of what happened. Indian Muslims in West Bengal and their ideological mentors were stridently defending the persons who had fought the Indian armed forces, not to mention their fellow Bengalis. The Kolkata mob was carefully mobilised in far-away districts of West Bengal and was brought in buses to the meeting in an organised manner.