With charges of ‘Talibanisation’ or ‘saffronisation’ of history flying thick and fast, it’s curious that Sonia Gandhi and Murli Manohar Joshi should find themselves sitting on the same side of the education fence. But Sonia did evoke friendly, dovish sounds from so-called Sangh hawk Joshi with her speech on the Bill that the Lok Sabha passed today to make education a fundamental right for children between the ages of six and 14. At the end of a fiery discussion on the Bill, Joshi was quoting from the national education policy introduced by Rajiv Gandhi when he was Prime Minister.