This refers to the report "Saffron surge to keep bulls on the front foot" (May 17). I do not know for how long, but both the electronic and print media allude to the Bharatiya Janata Party with saffron as a prefix. I still do not understand whether it is sarcasm, humour, ridicule or plain inequity in outlook or a mass neurosis. Since saffron, as a colour, is sacred to the Hindu community in India, is it not a slight on that community to refer to a political party as the saffron brigade? Is it just because that community and the political party, too, are tolerant of this that the Indian media uses it with impunity?
N Subrahmanyam, Hyderabad
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