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Journalism of Courage
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has done well to invite President Bush to visit India. Bush had earlier suggested that he would come to India if re-elected. Thousands of our young people are employed in medical transcription, data feeding, call centres and other IT-related work. They profit from Bush8217;s policies and are happy he is re-elected. Manmohan Singh8217;s recent visit to the US and his breakfast meeting with Bush was a step in developing a better business relationship with the US. The two leaders must take up from where they left off.
8212; Divyesh Raythatha Dover
Restraint, please
8226; This refers to reports about 8216;Ex-Miss Jammu8217; being held for acting in porn films. The girl may have been trapped using her ambition and young age as bait. It may be that the people involved in the whole scandal played on her naivete and that she had no alternative but to do as they said. It is wrong on the part of the media to disclose her name in public before the whole truth is uncovered.
8212; Sakshi Jammu
Eastern, despotic
8226; Your editorial on Yasser Arafat 8216;A legacy in limbo8217;, IE, November 6, accuses the US of being partisan in the Middle East. Of course, we are! Israel is a democracy, has a free press and allows all forms of religious worship. The Arab states, on the other hand, are mostly totalitarian regimes with government-controlled press. Most allow open practice of Islam only. The US finds in Israel a nation of similar culture: Western and democratic, rather than eastern and despotic.
8212; Adam On e-mail
CBI8217;s dance
8226; Instead of talking about Zaheera Sheikh8217;s turnabout, the nation should focus more on issues of delay in the prosecution of corrupt ministers like Laloo Prasad Yadav, and Satish Sharma who has been given a clean chit by the CBI and the Home Ministry! Ever since the Manmohan Singh government has assumed charge, the CBI has been dancing to the tune of its masters, namely Sonia Gandhi and her coterie.
8212; N.B. Patel Vadodara
Kerry8217;s truth
8226; Saeed Naqvi8217;s article 8216;Dear Mr Bush, stay your hand8217; IE, November 5 was written as a Muslim. The issues close to his heart are Palestine, Iraq and the ummah. He is disappointed because President Bush was reelected. I am sure he would have been more disappointed if Senator Kerry had been elected. Kerry was also close to Israel and distant from the Arabs. He would have stayed in Iraq, merely brought in America8217;s allies as well.
8212; Lalit Bagai On e-mail
Exploit it
8226; Instead of analysing whether political issues such as the Iraq War or moral issues like gay marriage, abortion rights and stem-cell research contributed to the success of Bush, we should concentrate on making the best use of Bush8217;s return to the White House. We must think of how we can exploit it in respect of better trade relations, enlarging BPO, increased quota of student and work visas. We must also try to enlist US support to our efforts to combat terrorism and to our legitimate stand on Kashmir.
8212; R. Thirunarayanan On e-mail
