What does Nury Vittachi have against India? On April 3, he contributed a comparative analysis between the 'inefficiency' of the Indian Commission here, and the success of Hong Kong's Immigration Department (with the latter's skeletal staff of a few thousand) in issuing 54,000 'passports' on the eve of Hong Kong's transfer to China.
On the former, Mr Vittachi bemoaned the plight of a two-year-old, whose Indian parent reportedly made one phone call to an unidentified staffer in that Commission, but tragically failed to learn how a passport could be issued to that infant on the eve of elections in India.
En route to my Easter prayers, I encountered in the Business Post an equally heady concoction by Mr Vittachi.
Targeted on the Indian Chamber of Commerce this time, he pontificated that, since the Indian community has recently petitioned John Major for UK nationality, it should not be turning to Lu Ping for Chinese nationality.
This analyst is off the mark on Hong Kong's past, present, or its future. It is no surprise that he has not checked out on the Indians who, starting with the British landing 150 years ago, have done their bit in making Hong Kong one of today's economic miracles.
PHILLIP AUGUSTINE PARIERA Causeway Bay