A few weeks ago, not long after the highest court in New Delhi overturned the city's ban on homosexuality, I got together with a friend from India. She was heading out soon for her yearly return visit, first-stop Delhi. Home-town mores were much on her mind.

"I wonder if...

Six years and a half years ago, another piece of India went up in flames from violence, and no one in the States blinked. No one discussed it. Very few were even aware anything had happened. Despite the fact nearly 2000 people then died in what, for a time, was...