The Shiv Sena was never really a fig leaf-bearing peacenik, but it is certainly breaking fresh ground in intolerance.

After party MPs forced a fasting Muslim catering employee at Maharashtra Sadan to eat a roti that had fallen to the ground, apparently because the food failed to please their palates, the Sena drew flak, and in the face of it, resorted to some self-righteous chest-puffing about how the issue was being given communal overtones.