Make them pay up

8226; The Delhi high court must ensure that every paise of outstanding dues to civic agencies i...

8226; The Delhi high court must ensure that every paise of outstanding dues to civic agencies is recovered from members of Parliament 8216;Your lordships, here are the defaulter MPs8217; names8217;, IE, March 3. Elected representatives know how to use basic facilities and forget all about it at the time of payment.

8212; Sunit Rajan On e-mail

8226; This is a very good exercise undertaken by The Indian Express. You must ensure that our members of Parliament are held accountable.

8212; P.T. Suresh On e-mail

Crossed sticks

8226; It is still not too late for the Indian hockey team 8216;India held by minnows8217;, IE, March 3. There are more important matches for India to play after a disappointing draw against Belgium. Put Dhanraj Pillay on a special flight at the earliest to join the team. India must display a do-or-die spirit if they are sincere about booking a place in the Olympics.

8212; Pradyot Patnaik On e-mail

8226; The Indian hockey team8217;s performance against Belgium in Madrid on Tuesday made for a pathetic spectacle. It was evident from the start that there was no gameplan in place and the forwards were clueless each time they got possession near the D. We don8217;t deserve to qualify if we continue to play like this.

8212; John On e-mail

Hop, skip, jump

8226; As the general elections draw near, some well-known politicians are rethinking their political loyalties. Among them is the senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha deputy chairperson, Najma Heptullah, who has been voicing her unhappiness with her party president, Sonia Gandhi. She has given all indications that she could be joining the BJP. What happened to ideology?

8212; Deepak K. Vidhyarthi On e-mail

Simply offended

8226; Prejudiced! Biased! Racist! I denounce the very existence of the ICC 8216;Revealed: ICC8217;s black book8217;, IE, March 3. It is now proved beyond doubt that the ICC is anti-India. What about Brat oops, Brad Williams, McGrath, Flintoff, Hayden, Pointing8230; the list is just endless. The ICC8217;s criticism of Saurav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Harbhajan Singh and Irfan Pathan is intolerable and we should protest in the strongest manner possible.

8212; Imtiyaz Khan On e-mail

Fee fiefdom

8226; Subsidising students at the Indian Institutes of Management, who are guaranteed top-bracket salaries once they graduate, but de-subsidising those university students pursuing degrees which do not fetch high salaries makes no sense. Human Resources Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi8217;s initiative to reduce the fee at the IIMs may have been upheld by the courts, but that does not mean that public opinion should be ignored.

8212; K.L. Batra On e-mail