By Nitin Srivastava
(BBC) A few children are trying hard to focus in the only classroom of a makeshift, government-run, madrassa in India’s north-eastern state of Tripura.
They find it hard to take their eyes off an iron-grilled window that offers a view of the neighbouring compound.
One of the class teachers walks up to us with folded hands, saying, “Hope all is well, sir, and nothing to worry?”
A single-storied mosque damaged by a stone-pelting mob stands next door. Inside, there are broken doors hammered by bricks, twisted fan-blades and shattered windowpanes.