He didn’t say it

Make your case

• Your editorial ‘Flawed prescription’ (IE, July 22) puts it nicely. I think along with what you have said, India needs to do a better job of presenting its case on terrorism to the international community so that any action we may choose to take on it, especially military, is justified in world opinion. India has the capability to present its case to the international audience but we should do it calmly, collectively, with one voice.

— Rohit On e-mail

No economic sense

• The UPA government can ill-afford to let producers of kerosene bear the loss incidental to the essential commodity being sold at a cheaper price through the public distribution system (PDS). One cannot help feeling that the petroleum ministry lacks the services of a sound economist’s brain.

— Arjun Chaudhuri Kolkata

We owe them

• The continuing criticism of Manmohan Singh’s speech at Oxford is regrettable. It is a historical fact that the Indian states were brought under one uniform administrative and justice system by the British which prevented further fragmentation of the country. The education and the language adopted from them have helped us play a role on the world stage.

— U. Narasimhan Mumbai

Visionless Left

• The Left has become such a nuisance by expressing “concerns” on each and every policy decision of the UPA. Take the nuclear deal with the US. It was a win-win situation for India for which Manmohan Singh deserves applause. The US President now must fight it out in the Congress and with the partners in the NSG to get the agreement going. If he succeeds, we will get nuclear fuel for our energy concerns. If he doesn’t, we can always go ahead with the Iran pipeline and then the US will have no leverage on us. Either way, we have nothing to lose. Yet the visionless Left is “concerned”.

— Ajith Kumar Sharjah

Don’t bank on US

• Saeed Naqvi has presented a cogent analysis of the situation in south Asia in ‘Don’t blink at Pakistan’ (IE, July 22). I hope he saw President Musharraf addressing Pakistan and the UK as well as the US on Thursday evening. His body language was clear. He warned his countrymen and also the west directly and India indirectly. We should also take into account the antagonisms of the large lobby in Pakistan consisting of the ISI and army personnel and the fanatic fringe sections of the religious parties. Chances are, the normally shortsighted US authorities will overlook Pakistan’s anti-India activities.

— Ramakant Desai On e-mail