DELHI’S SHAME

BROKEN GAZE A 19-year-old looks through a shattered window of Khajuri Khas’s iconic Fatima Mosque, which was destroyed by mobs on February 24

When the homes in Chandpur were set on fire on the evening of February 25, most families escaped the burning buildings by jumping on to the roofs of the neighbouring houses. Many jumped straight off the first or second floor of their homes on to the street. A group of friends from the area recall hearing their relatives call out from the adjacent lane. “They kept screaming, ‘Bhai, we