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India's trial

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ASSASSINATION, said Disraeli, never changed the history of the world. He may have been right, in his day. But the bomb that killed Rajiv Gandhi this week sent its blast through an India already on the edge of tragedy. That is why a single act of political barbarism, in the southern town of Sriperumbudur on the night of May 21st, may yet smash the world's biggest democracy into sectarian fragments.

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