Secularism a la DMK

12.06.06 When a DMK minister attended a religious function presided over by the Kanchi Shankaracharya, he was pulled up by the DMK Chief Minister and was berated for associating with a ‘disgraced’ religious leader. The DMK Chief Minister thought nothing of hurting the Minister’s religious feelings, apart from prejudging a case which is still in the courts. But the very same Chief Minister went out of his way to ban the Da Vinci Code so as not to have Christian feelings hurt. According to the DMK doctrine, Christians and Muslims have religious feelings whereas Hindus have only communal feelings.