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Journalism of Courage
Court8217;s call
8226; The report, 8216;Truce call: Ex-CJI Anand urges courts not to overstep limits, Speaker says democracy no war8217; IE, December 9 was interesting. Anand has warned the judiciary not to be too proactive and cross limits. Over the last two or three years, we have seen the honourable judiciary enter every aspect of our personal lives. A man begins his life with primary education and ends it at the cremation ground. The judiciary has assumed the role of the foremost pillar of democracy by intervening in almost every phase. At the same time, it has also not been successful in many areas. There are millions of cases pending in courts for decades but our honourable judges appear to have no time for them. The courts seem to take an interest only in those matters which excite public attention. We would urge the judiciary to conduct itself in tandem with the other institutions of democracy: the executive and the legislature.
8212;Harish Awasthi, New Delhi
Skeletons speak?
8226; Political Parties, cutting across ideological lines, seem to be unanimously against the SC verdict striking down the provision of getting government sanction for prosecuting public servants. The reason is not far to seek. The cupboards of all our political parties are bulging with skeletons. Any parliamentary action stalling what they call judicial 8220;overreach8221;, if put to vote, will be passed as 8220;unanimously8221;. This is bound to ring the death knell for Indian democracy.
8212;M.G. Kapahy, Delhi
Games they play
8226; America, right from the beginning, has been following double-standards vis-a-vis India. It was clear it would never accept the Indo-US nuclear treaty as it was because it was seen as being advantageous to India. The US has only one interest in mind 8212; its own. That is why it wants India to back its own aggressive foreign policy. It is not a superpower for nothing. America wants to engage India in its carrot-and-stick games but such an approach will not work with China, which would never entertain such policies.
8212;Krishna R. Patel, Narsinghpur
How multicultural?
8226; Apropos of the question, 8216;Is Europe8217;s multiculturalism fading?8217; IE, December 8, the answer can only be a categorical 8216;no8217;. All the Europeans are asking for is to be allowed to be Europeans! Europe has been very generous to its immigrants, both legal or otherwise, and have ceded a lot of space to them within just half a century. As the writer has rightly pointed out, India8217;s multiculturalism is unique but has developed over centuries. What some immigrants seem to be wanting is to enjoy all the advantages of being European without any commitment to the cultural or social values of the host country. They wish to be even more fundamentalist in their attitudes than their brethren in their countries of origin.
Remember Kashmiri women resisting the idea of a veil even when threatened with acid?
8212;Satish Dayal, Delhi
