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Dozens of people gathered at a candlelit vigil last Wednesday to pay tribute to two Sikhs killed in India. Prayers were said and candles lit at Leicester Clock Tower to remember the two protesters who were killed and dozens of others wounded by police.

An alleged victim of rape has been accused of ‘regretting drunk sex’, by the barrister defending her supposed attacker. The jury at Cardiff Crown Court heard that the student woke up to find Akeem Hassain having sex with her.

Five workers were arrested on suspicion of working illegally at an Indian restaurant in Birmingham.

Jatindra Saha’s letter, in Asian Voice dated 17-10-2015, about Christians converting Hindus is enlightening. Christians did not come to India with British East India Company. St Thomas landed soon after crucifixion of Christ. Local king helped Christians to build churches; asked Brahmins to conduct rites. Christian missionaries do not go to Islamic countries because Muslims have steely resolve to protect Islamic faith. Hindus lack this fanaticism, giving rise to other parallel faiths in India. Due to sustained tolerance, Hinduism has no self-defense mechanism or proselytizing policy. Thus it is easy for other faiths to convert Hindus.

I would like to draw readers’ attention to Jatindra Saha’s (17/10/2015) letter on Evangelisation in India. There are two issues to be considered. Dogmas in Hindu religion is the main reason in declining of Hindus in India when compared with other religious groups. Hindu priests believe that Hindus should be born by birth and they did not admit any body from other religions. When one Muslim king invaded Kashmir he wanted to become a Hindu and the priests refused so he forced Hindus to become Muslims.

The USA is economically and militarily the strongest nation humanity has ever witnessed. Their reach on land, over oceans and in space is unprecedented. With their might, they are in a unique position to promote happiness and harmony amongst fellow humans. Unfortunately, since 1945 their record shows that they are the primary source for misery and hostility in the world. One can confirm the above statement by examining their record in countries far away from them like Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and many more. They have killed more humans in foreign lands and allowed more of their soldiers sacrificed outside their country than the equivalent total numbers for the rest of 205 countries of the world. They also suffered humiliating setback in Vietnam. One may think that with their dismal record they would have learned to act responsibly in relation to other nations.

Why am I not surprised reading in local papers that Brent Council’s compensation bill surges to £78K, from 1898 complaints received, mostly paid to homeless families, some with children who were obliged to live in cars while others left in B&B for over six weeks, exceeding legal limit for emergency accommodation, Council officials illegally blaming them for becoming “intentionally homeless.”

Shri Vidyanathan has jumped the gun, drawn his prophetic conclusion without reading contents of my letter. We all agree with his sentiments, about poor quality of education, as first sentence of my letter, “Most would appreciate, even support government crackdown on bogus colleges that rob students of hard earned money, even worthless qualifications and stringent but fair test in English language, essential ingredients to succeed.”

I am happy that from 5th October supermarkets have started to charge 5p for each plastic bag they provide to customers. In 2o10 supermarkets issued 6.3 billion bags and in 2014 this sored to 7.6 billion, but so many small shops are still not included. PSB are catalysing environmental, pollution, damaging countryside, coastlines, destroying wildlife both on land and in seas, blocking gutters as well as costing millions in cleaning up! They create havoc if not tackled soon when telephone and digital orders for goods are also leaping. Govt. target is to reduce them to 80% for supermarkets and 50% for others in a few years.