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• I was travelling from Sansad Marg to Asiad Village on October 31, 1984, in my car. As I was passing the South Extension crossing, I h...

• I was travelling from Sansad Marg to Asiad Village on October 31, 1984, in my car. As I was passing the South Extension crossing, I heard on the car radio the announcement, ‘‘We regret to announce the death of late Mrs Indira Gandhi….’’ As I went a little ahead, I saw a crowd forcibly pulling down a motorcycle rider (who was a Sikh), and setting him on fire. Hence, it is wrong for Tavleen Singh to say, ‘‘…but on the first day, there were no killings’’ (‘A flashback to the 1984 riots’, October 31). Even P C Alexander in his memoirs makes this mistake.

I too can never forget the macabre scenes. Some of us spent days and nights protecting our Sikh friends, even advising them to shave off. Many did not. Those were poignant days and memories one can never erase from one’s mind.

Lastly, apart from the new ‘‘secular’’ government that should put its secularism where its mouth is, the editors of national newspapers, who are obsessed only with Gujarat, need to do so also.
— Maj Gen (Retd) S C N Jatar

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• It seems Tavleen Singh has conveniently forgotten to demand that action be taken against those indicted by the Srikrishna Commission for the Mumbai riots. These days everybody is asking for opening of the Delhi riots probe, but why are the same writers afraid to ask for implementing the confirmed report on Mumbai riots?
— Nisaar Yusuf

• I was really impressed to see that a police officer such as Rahul Sharma still exists in our country, especially in a state like Gujarat (‘DGP told me free the rioters…’, October 31). He dared to say the truth. The change in testimony by Zaheera Sheikh, the prime witness in the Best Bakery case, speaks of similar pressure on her.
— Prasoonan

• This refers to the article on Dharmendra ‘People love me as an actor, do not see me as MP’ (October 31). Basically Dharmendra is a film personality and not a political person. And films and politics are poles apart! Dharmendra should not sail in two boats and stick to his original profession.
— Mahesh Kumar

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