A wider conspiracy

Sir, - It is with deep regret that I read about the continuing attacks on Christians in various parts of the country, the latest being the attacks on nuns reported on August 29.

One is constrained to believe that these attacks are part of a wider, vicious conspiracy to convert India into a nation of Hindu extremists. It is sad to see our nation being held hostage by a Government of Hindu extremists by Hindu extremists and for Hindu extremists.

It is distressing and disheartening that the honorable Prime Minister is proving to be nothing other than what Mr. Govindacharya called him: the Hindutva forces' mukhota. The mask began to slip with the call for a 'national debate' in the aftermath of the slaying of Graham Staines and his two sons, the declaration in New York that he was a swayamsevak and the recent condemnation of the so-called conversions by Christian missionaries. The latest, of course, is the expressed `hope' that the Ayodhya temple would be built. It is time that saner and secular elements in our society put a stop to this madness.

Rinu Jacob,

Hyderabad

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