• It is indeed amusing to see the BJP jumping, as if on cue, to take up cudgels on behalf of perceived “un-Hindu” culture in Girlfriend. It seems the recent poll results have taught the party nothing. When are they going to understand that it is not possible for anyone to fool people all the time, that too, using specious and illogical arguments to try and milk ill-earned mileage? It is a shame for normal Hindus and Indians like me that a party that supports a person like Narendra Modi to the hilt has the gall to talk about upholding “Hindu” and “Indian” interests. — M. Laad On e-mail Right policing • When criminals are not punished they get encouraged to emerge in even larger numbers (‘Gujarat police kill 4.’, IE, June 6). It’s time India gives more power to the police and gets rid of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism aimed at destabilising India. — Arish Sahani On e-mail Vajpayee’s comments • It was nice to read Trupti Shah’s letter in this column (IE, June 15) on Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s statements on Modi. Vajpayee said that the defeat in Lok Sabha election was due to Modi and the Gujarat riots but he doesn’t feel sorry for the carnage that took place in Gujarat. So, too, was the case with the lives of 25 women lost in Lucknow, his constituency. — Divyesh Raythatha On e-mail • Your editorial (‘BJP’s moment of truth’, IE, June 16) refers to the former PM’s “antaratma call” on Narendra Modi. It makes one wonder whether Vajpayee is angling for a Bharat Ratna. If such a move be in the air let it also be clubbed by a similar award to his main political adversary in the last poll battle, who led a glorious silent revolution not only in terms of healthy politics locally but also in the practice of honest democracy, globally. — Mukund B. Kunte New Delhi • Pray, who will atone for the 52 Hindu victims of Godhra? The secularists? Where is the remorse of the secularist brigade? Glossing over their own shortcomings, they are picking on Narendra Modi. Shame one them. If Modi is the mascot of the Hindutva, don’t blame the BJP for it, it is the secularist who made him an icon. As a votary of Hindutva, I strongly endorse Modi. Removing him is to accept the lie the Islamists are innocent. They are not. — Ramana Murthy On e-mail What about India? • Kuldip Nayar seems to believe that more generosity will lead to evaporation of Bangla hatred for India (‘Be generous. Be realistic’, IE, June 14). Is not hosting over 2 crore illegal Bangladeshis being generous enough? These illegal aliens create social problem, take away job opportunities from the poorest who need it the most, usurp whatever little social support exists. Nayar will do well to come out of the dream world of Nehruvian lotus eaters. — Charan Rawat On e-mail Torching sport • Seeing the portly Suresh Kalmadi attired with a head band et al, running gingerly, with the Olympic torch in his hand, was enough to understand why sports in India is about ministers, selectors, favours, freebies and power. — Nandini Bahri-Dhanda On e-mail
