His maternal grandmother was Ruth Khumalo, and as her name would inextricably connect her to the roots of her tribe, her life would mirror its descent into the madness of postwar South Africa.

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If instead the blame is placed at the door of Muslim or, for that matter, Hindu extremists, then the fears will be of reprisals and counter-reprisals, and a descent into communal madness of the sort that has killed Indians in their hundreds, even thousands, so many times before.

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After her death, he began to confuse her in his mind with St Ursula, as painted by Carpaccio, and believed she spoke to him from the next world hallucinations which presaged his later descent into madness.

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