RELIGION, POLITICS OF CONVERSIONS AND P K
It is not news that a movie has been well made or scripted. News these days is whether it makes it to the 100 crores club or breaks box office records. Politicians are less concerned by the ‘state of welfare’, or any change thereof, of its ‘proletariat’, but more concerned with their religious commitments or any changes thereof. This is not unexpected in a nation obsessed with religion, and caste. Ever since I can remember, every blessed form that I filled in, even prescription I wrote, carried the blanks for religion and caste. This caste based distinction and segregation has pushed the nation into an abyss, from which it is difficult to conceive how we will extricate ourselves, if and when we are able to. Leaving the caste factor aside before a thousand daggers are drawn against me, the boohoo about religion is difficult to fathom. To many like me, religion is a very personal thing. Which God I believe in, or don’t believe in for that matter, is enti