If the rules have changed, please tell me. There was a time when you would never have published this sort of photo. These newspapers go into our homes. Do we have to subject our children to this? When these subjects come up on telly, we can send children into other rooms or switch channels until the late news, by when they will be in bed. Are you selling newspapers in the same way as the Chinese-language publications, which have run this kind of photo for years disregarding social decency?

GEORGE SALAMON, Western

Overlooked Muslims

The letter 'One Indian heritage' (December 30) has not so subtly omitted Muslims, the second-largest community, as participants in a unified India. The implication is that Muslims do not show 'faith, loyalty and support for their country' and that they were not among those who 'together fought the British to achieve Independence'. Apart from the irony of omitting 200 million citizens when boasting about a common culture, this revisionist jingoism is exactly what polarises, not unifies, India.

ASAD SULTAN, Clear Water Bay