The report, “No let-up by Hindu groups on ghar vapsi ” (Dec.26) was disturbing. Sadly, right-wing elements have been pursuing their mission of conversions and reconversions with redoubled vigour without any qualms about the attendant threats to communal harmony. That organisations like the VHP pride themselves on the arithmetic of conversions is deplorable. Inflammatory speeches by both the BJP and religious leaders have become the order of the day. With the Prime Minister remaining silent, one wonders what good governance and development will really mean (“Modi leads good governance carol,” Dec.26).
P.K. Varadarajan,Chennai
There should be an anti-conversion law in our country. Everyone should have the right to follow the religion they want. When somebody takes the decision to give up one religion and follow another, it means he or she has chosen to repose faith in its rituals, customs and practices and involves his/her conscience, soul, heart and body. Right-wing elements need to ask themselves whether the mere external donning of the symbols of a religion means conversion. Has the person really accepted the new religion? What is really in the person’s soul?
Sumit Lour,Bulandhshar, Uttar Pradesh
