Two security guards stabbed in the wee hours of April 27 by a young man; this incident has left many questions. A terror attack? Why were they asked about their religion? What was the motive behind? Though these questions have not been solved yet, they remain a marker of rising religious discontent in India.

Subroto Sen, a security guard who was stabbed in a violent assault by 31-year-old Zaib Zuber Ansari in Mumbai’s Naya Nagar, has narrated to the police the sequence of events from the horrifying night that left him and his supervisor, Rajkumar Mishra, seriously injured.

After nearly a week of punishing heat that saw the mercury flirt with the 44°C mark, residents of the national capital finally breathed a sigh of relief this morning.