Dear Mr Srinivasa-Raghavan, I understand the part about indians functioning on contextual morality, but it seems to me that this is true for most human beings. for e.g. a lot of americans offer moral justification for guantanamo bay, torture of prisoners, attacks on iraq etc in the context of the 9/11 and the 'war on terror'. can you pls give examples of westerners functioning on 'moral absolutes'. in my limited experience this does not seem to be the case