OPINION - I saw the terrible impact of riots in India — and now I fear for England

In February 2002, 59 Hindu pilgrims perished when their train caught fire just outside Godhra station in the Indian state of Gujarat. The cause of the fire was never conclusively established; yet of the many unsubstantiated theories that still swirl around the fire, the one that had the most devastating impact on was the claim that the train had been set alight by a Muslim mob.