Tolerance;boon or bane fr indian democracy

I think that TOLERANCE is a boon as well as bane of indian democracy.We know that democracy is product of liberalism.One of imp tents of liberalism is tolerance.Tolerance helps in accepting various view points even though u disagree with them.This virtue helps a lot in a multiethic society like india.Tolerance is not a modern virtue though.Indians have been practicing it since long time.So tolerance has helped in successful working of indian democracy.However,just like a coin has two faces similarly,tolerance when far-stretched can lead to 'insensitiveness'.Attacks on M F Hussain,Taslima Nasreen etc is not so much bout intolerance of minorities but tolernace of this intolerance by majority.