Made in China

New Delhi

Excess baggage

8226; The editorial 8216;Brute power won8217;t fly8217;, on the highhandedness of MP Wahab was apt and timely. Wahab and his likes have held the common Indian 8212; the one who pays through his nose to maintain these parasites 8212; to ransom. Indians have suffered for too long at the hands of politicians who hold up traffic on main roads, delay flights and trains or turn up late at programmes they willingly attend. The fight-back had to happen sooner or later. But one such incident or one editorial comment will not reform these VIPs.

India needs hundreds of Rosa Parks to affirm citizen democracy and cut to size the high and mighty drunk on undeserved power.

While denouncing Wahab in no uncertain terms I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the pilot in question on putting his foot down and offloading the 8220;excess baggage8221;. Let this hero8217;s tribe multiply.

Sunnyvale,California

A welcome verdict

8226; The Supreme Court8217;s historic judgment will be welcomed by all 8216;OBC quotas in, OBC well-off out8217;. Some sections of Indian society have been denied progress even more than 60 years since Independence. However, reservations should be made available to everybody below the poverty line, irrespective of caste and creed.

Faridabad

Affecting whom?

8226; Too much is being read into the current inflation and its relation to the Lok Sabha polls due in a year or so, if not earlier. Even with the inflation galloping, one doubts whether the electorate in India would bother much about it. The reason being that, in the far-flung and open spaces of India, the government hardly exists for the aam admi. Thus, the effect of whatever the government is or is not doing is hardly felt in these forlorn areas where people who too cast votes are till this day resigned to their dismal fate and expect nothing at all from the sarkar. They know that it is a futile wait.

Ahmedabad