Celebrities write open letter to PM over lynchings

Celebrities including Anurag Kashyap, Aparna Sen, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mani Ratnam and Konkona Sen Sharma, have written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing their concerns over the growing the cases of lynching in India.
As many as 49 celebrities from different backgrounds have joined forces to address the issue and come out with the letter, dated July 23 and addressed to Prime Minister Modi.
Among the signatories are Shyam Benegal, Riddhi Sen, Ramchandra Guha, Binayak Sen, Soumitra Chatterjee, Revathy, Shubha Mudgal, Anupam Roy amongst others.
‘Dear Prime Minister, we as peace loving and proud Indians, are deeply concerned about a number of tragic events that have been happening in recent times in our beloved country,’ the letter starts. (IANS)