Flawed logic

This refers to Arun Jaitley8217;s Hairsplitting on terror8217; . Jaitley is right in arguing for a more consolidated and hard-line approach...

8226; This refers to Arun Jaitley8217;s 8216;Hairsplitting on terror8217; . Jaitley is right in arguing for a more consolidated and hard-line approach to terrorism. But I would like to highlight two fundamental drawbacks in his argument. He says that there can8217;t be any moral or political equivalence between subversives and nationalists. But any equivalence between the two is based on their common propagation of violence and chaos. Secondly, if Jaitley alleges that secularism has become a euphemism for majority-bashing, he should also agree that, evidently, nationalism has become a justification for minority-bashing, as witnessed in Orrisa and Karnataka.

8212; Mohit Anand

New Delhi

Avoidable waste

8226; This refers to the editorial 8216;Reform, Commission8217; . As most commissions take an inordinately long time in finishing their reports, which in turn don8217;t result in action, it is time they were given a break to save public money.

8212; Y.G. Chouksey

Pune

Loudmouth

8226; This refers to the editorial 8216;Shoot 8216;em up8217; . Time and again, BJP leaders try to showcase the misdeeds on the part of some misguided individuals of a community to flaunt their own misconceived patriotism. Rajnath Singh8217;s pronouncements will only add fuel to the fire, tearing asunder the social fabric of India.

8212; Satwant Kaur

Mahilpur

8226; What is worrying is not that Rajnath Singh holds ideas as he has expressed but that, as the chief of a major national party, he said what he did and that too in public. The message from the public platform affects millions of people directly or indirectly. Singh was obviously wooing the BJP8217;s vote bank and doing it dangerously. Nevertheless, it is an entirely different matter that we8217;ve been soft on terror and thereby allowed various secessionist and fringe elements to cause havoc in India. Thus the Union government should indeed take exception to Pakistani flags being waved in Kashmir, but certainly not in the manner Rajnath Singh advocates.

8212; Himanshu Bhaskar

New Delhi

Clear the air

8226; There seems to be some confusion about Part I of the Nanavati Commission8217;s report. This report is understood as referring only to the incidents at Godhra, and not to the Gujarat riots post-Godhra, which are supposed to be published in December. It is therefore intriguing to find observations by the commission on the Narendra Modi government8217;s role in this report. In any case, the commission should make the necessary clarifications because everybody is assuming that a clean chit has been given to Modi.

8212; T.U. Mehta

Ahmedabad