Cops 038; cooperation

You make a very sensible suggestion in your editorial 8216;Expertise and ego8217; IE, October 7. Considering the synergy a...

You make a very sensible suggestion in your editorial 8216;Expertise and ego8217; IE, October 7. Considering the synergy and cooperation between various terrorist groups in India, the security agencies can do with all the inputs possible, including from the FBI. But I doubt whether it would be feasible, given our politicians8217; penchant for placing political divisions above the national interest.

8212; Ram Talgeri Singapore

8226; Politicians should put partisanship and politics aside, and allow the FBI8217;s well-trained and technologically superior experts to help us find out where the explosives came from, and who the culprits were in the attacks in the Northeast.

8212; Falak Shah On e-mail

Laloo8217;s heroics

8226; While I quite agree with your editorial 8216;Tainted halo8217; IE, October, I feel that the media is very 8220;soft8221; on Laloo Prasad Yadav only because he is perceived as a 8220;secular hero8221;! All crimes can be forgotten and forgiven provided he/she is considered as anti-Hindu 8212; sorry, secular! In this narrow vision, a person who is justly proud to be a Hindu and who refuses to appease minorities, and especially the Muslims, is the criminal of the highest order. Secularism is dead 8212; long live Laloo!

8212; Shreeram Paranjpe Mumbai

Left-hand drive

8226; Lord Meghnad Desai is spot-on in 8216;Foreigners at the gate! Slavery for ever!8217; IE, October 4. He rightly questions whether the Indian state is so fragile on the issue of sovereignty and sums up that it is a device to keep the Left in the seat of power and influence. Or are they in fact doing their best to do even better by riding in the 8216;8216;back seat8217;8217;?

8212; Mukund B. Kunte New Delhi

Quota quotes

8226; Prime Minister Manmohan Singh8217;s statement on reservations sends shivers down my spine 8216;Quotas in pvt sector: PM says the time has come, rules out a law8217;, IE, October 7. I see lots and lots of trouble ahead if he brings forth a legislation on this.

8212; Dev Ashish Rampur

Beyond slogans

8226; An interesting editorial 8216;Reason badhao8217;, IE, October 6. Unless the government changes labour laws and kickstarts massive industrialisation in urban as well as in rural areas, 8216;8216;Rojgar badhao8217;8217; will remain a slogan only, like Indira Gandhi8217;s 8216;8216;Garibi hatao8217;8217; slogan. Garibi has not been removed even 30 years later. The people of India need no more slogans, but they look forward to concrete results.

8212; Divyesh Raythatha Dover

Well said, Prez

8226; Both the president and prime minister deserve praise for their commendable suggestion that their offices be brought under the purview of the Lokpal. It is only when a suitable legislation is passed that the rule would stand fully vindicated. If all are truly equal before the law, then all must be equally accountable with regard to the law of the land.

8212; Kowlagi Seshachar Mysore