A.K. Kripalani, Mumbai : We have had Muslim Chief Ministers in States. When will we have a Hindu Chief Minister in Jammu and Kashmir?

—That is an ideal to be reached, and, as poet Browning put it, a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?

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Recently some Christians were murdered in Pakistan, but no hue and cry was raised by Indian secularists and Christian countries. Why?

—Because Indian secularists are cowards and Christian countries are too myopically anti-Hindu to see the na-pak writing on the Pak wall.

P.R. Akula, Secunderabad: BJP President Naidu says Sonia is not an asli Gandhi. Comment.

—What is more important is not that Sonia is a nakli Gandhi but is she an asli Indian?

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Swami Paramarthanand of Rama Krishna Mission, Hyderabad says Hinduism used to be considered a mild-religion, now it is very much an aggressive religion. Comment.

—Hinduism is neither mild nor aggressive, but Hindus, so far considered cowards, now seems to have decided to hit back.

D.N. Sinha, Hyderabad: Are Congressmen intellectually bankrupt that they want a suspect foreigner like Sonia to become Prime Minister of India?

—Congressmen have always been serfs of the Nehru-Gandhi royals, and serfs have no use for intellect.

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CIA, considered the best intelligence agency in the world, has failed to find Osama. Comment.

—They have not found him because they have not looked in the most probable place—General Musharraf's backyard.