Just skip Ahmedabad

Some clarity

• Kudos to K. Subrahmanyam for ‘Reading the future in Tehran’ (IE, February 14). His insights clear a way through the web of confusion.

— Rohit Sydney

Break the cartel

• Thomas Friedman’s ‘No Mullah left behind’ (IE, February 14), is thought provoking. The US and EU have rules and regulations which prohibit corporations worldwide from forming monopolies or cartels. Ironically a self-declared oil cartel, OPEC, which is responsible for quantity restrictions and therefore higher oil prices for consumers worldwide, is allowed to function with impunity. The US and EU owe it to their citizens and the citizens of developing countries to break up this economically malignant cartel.

— Arun Khanna Indianapolis

Big bully

• I am sick and tired of reading the biased news of Nepal by your newspaper and all the Indian media alike. I am from Nepal and know what has happened to that country for the last 15 years in the name of democracy. There was no law and order, your beloved democratic political leaders in Nepal were corrupt and inept. Now that the King has taken over the powers to restore peace, India has a problem.
India is always the big bully towards her neighbours.

— Hemant Sharma On e-mail

Six questions

• There are some questions in my mind regarding the shooting of S.A.R. Geelani. It seems that several months ago, there were always policemen posted outside Nandita Haksar’s house. If no policemen were present when Geelani was shot, how long ago did they cease to be a fixture there?
Two, no one can reach AIIMS Casualty without passing the police post at the inner gate. Police personnel are generally present within Casualty. It is their job to record everything which might be a medico-legal case. Yet they complain that the doctors delayed telling them about Geelani. Three, in hospitals, doctors alone have the authority to determine when a patient may have visitors. Yet, as Ram Jethmalani told the court, it was the police who prevented Geelani’s wife from seeing him on the night on which he was shot. Four, when a gun-shot injury is sustained in the absence of witnesses, the only option is to examine a bullet to identify the weapon. Surgical procedures performed on Geelani will have involved a search for sources of bleeding. Yet no bullet was removed from his body. Were they not noticed? Five, three bullets in Geelani, five spent cartridge cases near his car. It is unlikely the cases were ejected from a revolver. Every firing pin leaves a distinctive mark and the calibre of a spent case is easily seen. Six, one wonders who are the people who have easy access to fire-arms which leave unidentifiable marks on bullets and cartridge cases.

— Mukul Dube Delhi