Letters To The Editor

The Indian Express does a great job by publishing the discourse in the proverbial frog8217;s well of both Left and Right...

Faking Right

8226; The Indian Express does a great job by publishing the discourse in the proverbial frog8217;s well of both Left and Right 8216;View from the LEFT8217; and 8216;View from the RIGHT8217;. While CPM mouthpiece People8217;s Democracy raises all the right questions, it gives all the wrong answers. Organiser, the RSS mouthpiece, doesn8217;t even talk about real issues. 8220;Aamir Khan defends jihadi terrorism,8221; it says, sounding predictable. It has to be said that Right makes much more interesting reading and often tickles the funny bone unlike the Left, which is too dull and staid. But I doubt whether sectarian RSS can be called Right in India. While being blessed with the Left, India misses a genuine Right.

8212; Pranav Sachdeva, New Delhi

Suffering Left

8226; It would be naive to think the law is taking its due course in Amitabh Bachchan8217;s run-in with the income tax department. First it was Jaya Bachchan thrown out of the Rajya Sabha. Whether it was Quattrocchi8217;s escape from India and subsequent defreezing of his accounts, dissolution of Bihar Assembly, Volker Commission and, earlier, governors8217; gaffes in Goa, Jharkhand, Bihar assemblies 8212; all these had the blessings of 10 Janpath. Leftists and Samajwadi Party are tacitly supporting the power that be at 10 Janpath and yet taking out morchas and calling bandhs against government policies. Rise in prices is alarming. But these two SP and Leftists go on making Sonia Gandhi and the Congress more nationalist than any other party.

8212; Ashok Jain, Mumbai

Affirmative muddle

8226; The article by Christopher Jaffrelot 8216;It8217;s some more of a good thing,8217; IE June 12 is studied and full of suggestion for correct steps to be taken in introducing quotas. However, he could have mentioned that CII and the IT majors are also stressing the same point that the young Dalits or SC/ST must be educated in the line they wish to take and private industry is willing to start such training schools. It goes without saying that only those who make the grade can be absorbed. The government therefore has responsibility to provide quality education at school level to all, regardless of religion, caste and creed. It is difficult to understand why he is not in favour of having a creamy-layer cutoff in job reservations. Another point he misses is that if we call India secular, why should the government disregard the poor in other communities, castes, religions? What is so special about Dalits following Hindu religion?

8212; R.P. Desai, New Delhi

Broader index

8226; This has reference to Narayanan Madhavan8217;s 8216;Exuberance can be rational8217; IE, June 14. One fails to understand why the rise or fall in the Sensex is linked with strengths or weaknesses of the country8217;s economy. The recent continuous rise in the Sensex had no rationale and if the analysts were claiming it to be based on so-called fundamentals, they were all fundamentally wrong. Time has come to scrap the Sensex based on just 30 shares and replace it with an index based on 200 shares.

8212; Narendra M. Apte, Mumbai

Private factor

8226; The media is talking about H.D. Kumaraswami8217;s and Deve Gowda8217;s land stake entangled in Bangalor Mysore Infrastructure Corridor project. Why is it, especially the Indian Express, not asking questions about the double standards established by private sector and their ideological and political supporters. Why does this sector demand land from government instead of buying it from farmers in open market? H.D. Kumaraswami must go with the Karnataka Infrastructure Development and Land Reforms Bill 2006.

8212; Ujwal Latkar Nanded, Maharashtra