India, April 13 -- Dear Shri Nayab Singh Saini Ji

My plan was to write about the Pakistan-brokered ceasefire that, for the time being, ended the American Iran war. But a columnist is often influenced by his heart more than his mind. And that is how I thought of appealing to your heart rather than to your heartless bureaucracy, in the hope that you will not let me down.

On April 9, I was in Karnal as a resource person at the 2026 Delhi Province Assembly of the Indian Missionary Society (IMS), an indigenous order of the Catholic Church. One thing that attracted me to the IMS is its practice of giving all its members new Indian names like Kiran, Keerthi, and Manas instead of European names like Eugene, Lucas, and Dubois.

I was happy to me...