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• Apropos The Foreign Hand in The Sunday Express of 11th January, Jyoti Malhotra needs to be reminded that there is an old adage which says that fools rush in where angels fear to tread. In the field of foreign policy this was wisely adhered by the Congress and the governments that followed it vis-…-vis Pakistan and China in contemporary times. Ever since the BJP rushed in at Lahore and Beijing (swinging like a pendulum) followed by Kargil and intrusion into Arunachal Pradesh while Vajpayee was in China, confirms that on foreign policy front BJP is a BheJaless Party.

C A Kallianpur

• This refers to Passengers to the future and Forget past if you must for peace: PM (SE January 18). It is good that steps are taken to improve Indo-Pak relations. But during SAARC summit one thing was clear that some of the Bollywood films are not appreciated in Pakistan. Therefore, both India and Pakistan should now choose subjects (stories) which can improve our relations. The print media and TV should always highlight positive happenings which improve the Indo-Pak relations. I recollect that many film lovers of Pakistan came especially to watch the premier of Mughal-e-Azam in Odeon Cinema in New Delhi in August 1960. It was a historic moment.

Mahesh Kumar

• P Chidambaram in Lifting the curtain on Jaswant’s sop opera (January 11), hits the nail on the head. He rightly pointed out that the Jaswant Singh’s sop opera was only to please the minority elite and new rich classes and ‘‘this brilliant idea was made at a Page 3 party!’’ It’s shocking that majority 600 million Indians who are ‘‘semi-educated, unemployed (or underemployed) and poor’’ who want to leave a decent life and look for a better future are neglected like this. Fifty four per cent of the people are below 25 and the government’s ‘‘helping hand’’ is so disgustingly tilted against the lower middle class and the poor that we feel ashamed.

Bidyut Kumar Chatterjee

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