Kudos to Kumar

This refers to 8216;When he opened a sealed almirah, it all tumbled out8217; IE, November 26. I was deeply shocked to read...

This refers to 8216;When he opened a sealed almirah, it all tumbled out8217; IE, November 26. I was deeply shocked to read the uphill battle Sanjeev Kumar, an IAS officer, has had to fight in Haryana. It is shameful for the state8217;s chief minister and for the central government which supports him, that such a dishonest system prevails. All my sympathies are with Kumar. I wish we could float an organisation at an all-India level to support such honest officers. He needs support, both moral and financial, to protect him from the dishonest and hostile system in which he has to work.
8212; Prem L. Sankhayan, On e-mail

Kudos to Sanjiv Kumar for bringing the corrupt officials to book. He has set an exemplary standard for IAS officials to follow. If the media rallies behind him, truth shall prevail.
8212; Srini Desikam, On e-mail

Conscience, who?

Though the Supreme Court8217;s acquittal to Jayalalithaa in the Tansi case has given her political victory, its verdict is a slap on the face of the Tamil Nadu Chief minister. On technical grounds, Jaya wins, but as the court said, 8220;8230; she must atone by answering her conscience 8230;whether she had done the right thing in breaching the spirit of the Code of Conduct8230;8221; But it8217;s difficult to believe that such politicians have any moral conscience left.
8212; Bidyut K.Chatterjee, Faridabad

Raise the bar

This refers to your editorial 8216;Not guilty. Guilty8217; IE, November 26. The AIADMK seems to have completely ignored the fact that the Supreme Court has handed only the chimera of a legal victory to Jayalalithaa in the Tansi case. The court8217;s stern rebuke to her on her moral and ethical lapses has been completely lost sight of. You are correct in your editorial judgement that the need of the hour is to raise the bar for trying corruption cases, especially those relating to politicians.
8212; K. R. Rangaswamy, On e-mail

No half measures

In law there is no half-way house which would allow one to say that a person is partly guilty and partly not, as the apex court has done in the case of Jayalalithaa. After holding her guilty of breach of rules of conduct, the court ought to have drawn the only inference of her being guilty. It is not the function of the court to sermonise. The court ought to have asked for further evidence if there was not enough produced in the first place.
8212; R. Mehta, On e-mail

Fresh perspective

Azim Premji8217;s thoughts on education are a breath of fresh air in 8216;Double helix of education8217; IE, November 21. I wish that people with similar views occupied all the vital positions of power. They would then transform education into a means of developing the Indian human resource well enough to meet the challenges the nation is confronted with. Where are the values Premji speaks of? Character-building is the last thing that can be found, if at all, among the objectives of education. Teachers drawn from an already corrupted system would only further vitiate it. Nothing short of a revolution can break this vicious cycle. Till that happens, our unfortunate young minds will receive the present rotten 8216;education8217;. I sometimes wonder whether those who remain out of the reach of the present efforts to 8216;educate8217; them are more fortunate, in that they escape the senseless ordeal.
8212; Kambhampati A. Rao, On e-mail