Caste Out

The rise of Magawati, with her eye on a hung Parliament and thus on the Indian Premiership, focuses attention (even if not necessarily very well) on the Dalits.

The Christians, and especially Catholics, being persecuted in India are overwhelmingly Dalits. Globalisation and its multiculturalism have brought the caste system to our own shores.

And those doing the persecuting, whether in India or here, are exactly the same people who insist that there were recently terrorist attacks in “Mumbai”, and that the England cricket team was recently playing in “Chennai”.

Magawati or no Magawati, unless you approve of the persecution of the Dalits, Christian and non-Christian, in India and in Britain, then you must maintain that those cities are in fact called Bombay and Madras respectively.