India, Sept. 30 -- Dear Shri George Kurian,

Last year, I had the privilege of sharing a dais with you at Lucknow. You were the chief guest, while I was one of the resource persons at a conference of principals of Catholic schools in India. We had earlier met at a function organised by the Kerala Christian Association at the Bible House, near Khan Market, in New Delhi. Yes, the same Khan Market, whose crowd Narendra Modi despises for being elite.

What prompted me to write this letter is your statement in which you appealed to Union Home Minister Amit Shah to order the National Investigating Agency (NIA) to probe incidents of love jihad in Kerala. What shocked me was your assertion that Christian girls were "soft targets" and they easily fe...