Actually Gabe, the problem with inaction by the Central Govt against the killings of the Christian tribals in Orissa by the Bajrang Dal is not so much an anti-Christian sentiment at Delhi but the general lack of value for human lives in India for the most part.
This is obvious to anyone who has lived in India from the 70s onwards and then moved to the west where a human life has a value like no other. I don't know whether this lack of value for human life in India is the result of her huge population numbers or just the poverty and hopelessness of the majority of the people who have not participated in it's economic resurgence. As the most common example, see the way a dead body is treated in a public mishap. JoeGoaUK has shown us pictures of drowning cases on Goan shores where bodies recovered on the beach were treated in the most ignominous manner. Look at the way bomb blast victims in Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Delhi and several other places were taken away. I look at scenes like that and I am embarrased to realize that I come from the same country that is being depicted in those photographs. Although secularism in India has been taking a severe beating in recent years, I have faith that it will survive. The waffling at the Centre about action to be taken against the Orissa state govt is due to one individual alone - Shivraj Patil the Home Minister. He has been severely criticized by his cabinet colleagues but he continues to waffle. He knows that he will soon be dropped as Home Minister so he just doesn't care. He is living out his last days as a Minister. This sympathy in Delhi, is little consolation to those being killed in Orissa. But as I said, what's a few hundred more lives expended before some action can finally be taken. Regards, Roland. On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1067789/Christians-forced-hide-woods-new-wave-Hindu-violence-sweeps-India.html#
