West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banarjee has apparently refused permission to the RSS to hold some kind of conference or public meeting in Kolkata.  This is just not acceptable in a functioning democracy like India.  I am no fan of the RSS, in fact, quite the opposite.  But I most certainly believe that they have every right to profess and propagate their views and beliefs provided it is done in a peaceful and nonviolent manner, which it was intended to be.  When we accuse the right-wing of being intolerant, we as liberals are showing exactly the same intolerance that we associate the other side with.  Mamata Banarjee's cussed attitude doesn't help the cause of liberals at all.