Malayalam writer T. Padmanabhan has said that he cannot find fault with the ‘ghar vapsi’ drive, a reconversion campaign of the Hindutva groups, as changing religions is a matter of individual’s freedom. The writer made this observation in an interview published in the latest issue of Kesari Weekly , a mouthpiece of the Sangh Parivar organisations. If an individual has the right to convert to another religion, that person also has the right to change the present religion and choose another one, he said, adding that in that sense ‘ghar vapsi’ could not be blamed.
Mr. Padmanabhan said he could not see any problem with the late writer and poet Madhavikutty’s conversion to Islam.
Taking exception to the ‘Kiss of Love’ protests against moral vigilantism, Mr. Padmanabhan said that while moral policing was ‘goondaism,’ protesting against it by kissing in public would not serve any good.
