"Sensitivities" are very context-bound and any serious debate needs to acknowledge this.
Dr Sarita Malik
The play was indeed set in a Sikh temple, but it was not played in a real temple. To claim that it violates the sanctity of a Sikh temple is, therefore, nonsense. A building without the presence of the Guru Granth Sahib is just that - a building. However, once the holy book is placed inside it, and the recitation of its contents begin, the building becomes a place of Sikh worship. The production designer may have created a replica of a temple, but it did not have the Guru Granth Sahib in it.
Randhir Singh Bains
Gants Hill, Essex
Free speech is a part of the British way of life. And though causing offence to some people's sense of the sacred may be tasteless or tactless, it's precisely the sort of thing that a society has to allow to happen if its speech is to continue to be free. Isn't it just a reverse form of colonialism to require us to defer to another society's sense of the sacred?