Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Letter to Balbir Punj

bpunj@email.com


Dear Sir,

I’ve always enjoyed your writings – you provide much food for thought therein. Your article ‘Secular Superstition’ in Asian Age was fantastic, particularly your last paragraph about the Pope to the effect that ‘charity begins at home’.

Social quarrels, whether between a married couple or among religions, erupt when the protagonists insist ‘my truth is the only truth’. Preachers like Benny Hinn are exemplars of this narrow mindedness. Activists of his ilk can be countered only by exposing their hollowness, not by incorporating them in the pantheon of secularism, as the Congress normally does.

Congratulations Punj Saab. More firepower to your golden pen!

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