Dedications

Atrocities on Christians is becoming a norm in India. Recently in Bombay a portion of a Catholic and a Jewish graveyard is planned to be demolished to make way for a road. Grave yards which are over 100 years old. Reason cited, to build a road. Alternative routes are available and this road planned was to give another way to a building project which is allegedly associated with powerful names. So this would not only change the road plan, but may also also change English metaphor, which was 'Walk over my grave', now be 'Drive over my grave'. The irony is on this road planned there is a public toilet which is not to be demolished. So you can defecate in peace in India but not rest in peace.

Few days ago was another saddening news of a 400 years old Church in Daman, planned to be demolished to make way for a football field! So what all excuses would be used to target minorities in India. First it was mosques were built over temples, so plans to demolish them and build temples over it. Did they find footballs under this 400 year old Church that they now want to build a football field? A food sufficient nation and a agricultural economy, is now facing threat of agricultural land being taken away for infrastructure development. Food is physical nourishment and religion is nourishment for the soul. If both these physical and spiritual nourishment are being compromised, India would be nation without a soul.

Trying to make rules on conversion into another faith a crime? To ensure there is no more conversion does a country need to take away graveyards and Churches? So is there no freedom in India to choose a religion? At the same time we want to believe that God is one and religions are different routes to this one God. So let people choose the  path to their faith and let not path for roads or a football field be over Catholic graves and Churches. Catholic community may not be a vote bank, but it definitely is an education Bank with the best educational Institutes in India, best health Bank with hospitals, amongst the best in humanitarian reach to the poor and the marginalized. Development of a nation with infrastructure or even sports is what any any nation would aspire. 

Let the nation not be developed over a community just because it is a minority