India, June 2 -- Dear Shri Vishnu Deo Ji, It is the second time I am writing an open letter to you. You may ask why I write an open letter and not a closed one? If I write a closed letter to you-and that too in English-I am sure it will find a place in your wastebasket.

An open letter will at least be read by some people. Hoping against hope, this may even tempt you to read it. That is why I write an open letter. The urge to write to you came when I read the report of a son approaching the Supreme Court of India not for any constitutional protection but to let him bury his father, who was a pastor.

I don't think anywhere else in the world would anyone have had to approach the highest court of the land just to bury a dead body. I am sure...