There are no open signs of protest, of the sort that presaged vicious rioting in Tibet in March.
In 1985, this north London housing estate was the site of what the police called, "the most vicious riots ever seen on the mainland".
In Hackney last weekend, a borough which a year ago was on the brink of vicious riots, people filled the streets not to stone policemen but to high-five them.
Mr Bacher duly confesses to having deceived many old friends, but the last of the rebel tours set off such vicious rioting among black South Africans that he experienced a sort of Damascene conversion to multi-racial cricket.
President Mwai Kibaki's victory looked rigged, and vicious riots and looting were sweeping the country.
Six months after the end of WWll, and before Israel was established, vicious riots broke out in Egypt and Libya - the latter, incited by anti-Jewish hatred, claimed more than 130 lives.
On May 13, Samos's hotspot broke into a vicious ethnic riot.
In 2009, almost 200 died in vicious ethnic riots in its capital, Ürümqi.
Racial tension exploded in vicious race riots in 1981 and again in 1985.
And the consequences — vicious religious rioting, scars on both India's landscape and her people — are all too visible.
