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Over-sensitive

Sir, — K.K. Katyal raises a valid point about the Ministry of External Affairs being extra-sensitive and protesting too much when it called the criticism of the events in Gujarat by the Finnish Foreign Minister and the European Union as "interference in the internal affairs of India" (April 24).

Would it make sense to call the abhorrence of the world community at the recent ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia or the atrocities committed by the Taliban against Afghan women interference in the internal affairs of those two countries?

It is time the Centre realised that we are living in a much smaller world and any infringement of the human rights of a large section of a populace is of concern to the whole world.

G.M.Y. Faruki,
New York

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