Call this justice?

• Your paper is one of the few that have stood up to question the Tamil Nadu government in the Sankaracharya issue. Both T.V.R. Shenoy and Pratap Bhanu Mehta have raised some serious questions. The present TN government is known for gagging the press. Reviving the independence of High Court judges is of utmost importance as the police seem beyond redemption.

— Girish Kumar Sydney

Papered over

• Please refer to your daring revelation of Sariska. The needle of the fuel gauge in a car shows the status of fuel in the reservoir but the fuel level of the car never increases when the needle is pulled up by external manipulation. Manipulating data on the Sariska tiger project will not fill up the reserve forest with tigers. There is a long practice of mathemagical presentation to cover up anything under the sun when all the parties of thief-police-judge are involved in a rotational manner.

— G.P. Dixit and M.K. Dasgupta NPL, New Delhi

Talking peace

• Does not the agreement over the bus service between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad without passports, even after Pakistan referred the Baglihar issue to the World Bank, smack of utter shamelessness? Pakistan’s minister of education has just stated that war is the only solution to ironing out differences between the two countries should be appreciated for its educative value. The bottomline should be: never lower one’s guard — specially while talking peace.

— Raghubir Singh Pune

Read Nepal right

• Nepal has had historical, cultural and military ties with India. This should continue in a mutually beneficial manner (‘Nepal govt hits out at foreign criticism’, IE, February 16). India is the largest arms supplier to the Nepali army to fight the insurgency and India must understand that stability in Nepal is imperative for its own security. If you think today there is a temporary suspension of liberties in Nepal, wait until there is a revolutionary red regime. The real issue is not the king, it is the Maoists for both Nepal and India. Such a government will be no less than the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. The Maoists have always been anti-Indian from Day One. India and the West also need to understand that if the king’s takeover was unjustified, the Nepali people would have been out on the streets.

— S.N. Singh Kathmandu

Abhi’s killers

• The killers of innocent Abhi Verma of Hoshiarpur should be meted out quick and exemplary punishment, nothing short of death (‘Abducted boy found dead in field’, IE, Feb 15). Such cases should not be allowed to linger on for years diluting the cause of justice and allowing culprits to take advantage of innumerable loopholes in the legal system.

— M.S. Anand Amritsar