New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- Dear Stan, I write this to you with a heavy heart: shocked and saddened, upset and angry. This letter to you is perhaps to ease my angst; I really don't know what to say and how to say it! But I am sure that what I write is also the sentiments, the emotions of many, from all over: Jesuit companions, colleagues, collaborators, alumni, well-wishers and friends who knew you so well and particularly, the Adivasis and other subalterns, whom you loved so much and gave your life for. This letter comes from the bottom of my heart (and our hearts) to say "Sorry, Stan!"

On August 9, St Xavier's College (SXC) Mumbai, (through their Department of Inter-Religious Studies) was scheduled to hold 'The Annual Stan Swamy Memorial Lec...