Let this be our motto: ‘Do not forget’.

* Standing yet at the threshold of the Internet millennium, Eco was uncannily prescient about the novel forms that ‘selective populism’ was slated to assume in future: “There looms in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected (and carefully targeted) group of citizens can be presented as the Voice of the People.”Both these prognostications have come true for India already. * Fascism Come in All Shapes and Sizes But the 'Family Resemblances' Can No Longer Be Denied