53 top historians in the country including Professors Romila Thapar (New Delhi), Irfan Habib (Aligarh Muslim University), M.G.S.Narayanan (Kozhikode),K.N.Panikkar (Thiruvananthapuram), have expressed their extreme unhappiness at the increasing intolerance in the country and requested for an atmosphere allowing free expression of thought.

This is a strong indictment of the communal tension being created and against the murders of intellectuals who expressed their opinions on various issues, which the fundamentalists could not digest.

More and more such condemnations  against the intolerance in the country are required.