Good Day! I had an opportunity to read the article by title "India ignores insults to Mahatma".
As an Indian citizen, with due respect to all the National leaders, I would like to make the following comment.
Respect to any person, be it a leader or a common man, is not expressed only in one way. Respect resides in the heart, in the actions, not in rituals. While it might be the belief of a person to pay respects at a Samadhi, another human being has all rights to keep his respect towards the same person, even without visiting the Samadhi.
Being a democratic country, we should not expect/insist that anybody who comes in , should follow the so proclaimed protocol.
We should show the maturity, to leave the decision, to each individual, unless it is a matter of national security or National integrity.
I regret that such an article was published on the web space of such a famous and widely popular portal.
