I refer to your article "A goose walking over Gandhi's Grave" in the Hindustan Times dtd 12th Dec 2007. My immediate reaction was to send a fitting rebuttal immediately but on second thoughts, I decided that it would be better to write after the results of the Gujarat Elections.
You wasted precious space in your article on a story of your friend's mother attacked by her neighbour, a retired Colonel of the Army and how you could not forgive him just like you could never forgive Shri Narendra Modiji. Accepting your logic at face value, it is the Hindus, who should never forgive the Muslims for burning the train at Godhra killing 58 innocent Kar sevaks mostly woman and children and therefore the retaliation that followed was as justifiable as your action against the Colonel for trying to kill your friend's mother.
You have written extensively on Gandhiji and his love for Muslims, wonder how Gandhiji had he been alive today would have reacted to ethnic cleansing of the more than 1/2 million Kashmiri Hindu Pandits who after being raped, ravaged and thrown out of their homes have become refugees in their own homeland. What was their fault ? did they demand equal opportunities, reservation or protest in the streets with guns and grenades against the blatant discrimination of their rights by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir. They were just peace loving people who wanted to live with dignity and probably the only fault
