Dubey: India’s hero number one for 2003

I would say the Indian mindset is extremely resourceful and clever in bending the system to suit individual needs. This corruption in a nation of a billion people needs to be arrested.

Karsan Bhudia

• After working in the NHAI, Dubey should have known in India you do not get protection unless you know someone at the top. Cronyism is the only system that works. Any letter sent to any officer is opened by the PA and the whole department knows its contents in no time.

R. Shrinivas

• Being a former IITian, Dubey’s murder has shocked me. Small steps would help. Apart from signature campaigns, we should demand the gradual removal of politicians from technical decisions.

Chitradeep Sengupta

• It would be an error to clear the NHAI top management and pass the buck to the state government. It would be prudent to institute an inquiry into the functioning of the NHAI, corrupt to the core due to domination of state PWD officers sitting at higher levels on deputation.

Virendra Kumar

• Keep this issue alive. Just push it.

Anjana

• India has Atal and Kalam. India has Sachin and Satyendra. The cricketer exempted from import duty; the engineer expelled from the world. Recently someone suggested a Bharat Ratna for Tendulkar. Why not for Dubey too?

Rajendra G. Jani

• My suggestion is Indian Express should institute a permanent fund for support to families such as Dubey’s. Merely writing emotional letters will not help.

Chanakya

• Dubey’s murder only emphasises the law and order situation in Bihar. As an NRI, I feel the country is still where it was when I left it 10 years ago. It is high time the Centre imposed president’s rule in Bihar and cracked down on the mafia there.

Anil Prakash Pande

• Bringing Dubey’s murderers to book is now a test case for India. If only to establish there is some semblence of justice left in our country, some glimmer of hope somewhere.

Saurabh Bhowmik

• We need people like Satyendra Dubey to show us what is really going on in our democracy. This murder is a crime against every honest Indian.

Shantanu

• Thank you for taking up the cause of Dubey and exposing the corruption in road construction. But for your exposure, Dubey’s murder might have been only a statistic, part of the usual blame game between the Centre and the state.

Please keep up the good work. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

Satya Prasad

• Being in the public sector, this has strengthened my belief that one needs to expose facts steadfastly, rather than seek excuses and save one’s skin.

Jitendra

• It is a shame that a good man — and India rarely produces one — was killed for money. The culprits must be executed publicly, like in the Roman Empire.

Bhaskar Reddi

• Eagerly waiting to hear our prime minister proudly announce, ‘‘We got him.’’ Let’s find Dubey’s killer before the end of 2003.

Mani Jinger

• If the government does not respond to the public outcry over the Dubey case, will the papers let the matter die too?

Sashi Paul